Vol. X AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 No. 1 


Session 


Activities At Agnes Scott, Their Organization 
and Purpose 


Student Government and Y. W. 
C. A. Regulate College 
Life 


The new students, especially those 
freshmen who have paid dollar fees 
to unscrupulous sophomores for mem- 
bership in Hoase and similar honor- 
ary organizations, will probably la- 
ment because the Agonistic with its 
information about organizations, 
clubs and societies on the campus 
did not come out sooner, 

Of prime importance are the Stu- 
dent Government and Athletic Asso- 
ciations, and Y. W. C. A. Every new 
student is expected to join these, which 
she may do after payment of the 
budget and signing of the Student 
Government pledge and Y. W. mem- 
bership cards. The Student Govern- 
ment Association makes possible the 
numerous privileges which Agnes 
Scott students enjoy, and cannot func- 
tion without the co-operation of the 
students. Y. W. C. A. besides pro- 
viding a Vesper service every Sunday 
evening, has charge of many other 
activities, some of which Frances Lin- 
coln mentioned in her talk Sunday. 
The Athletic Association takes care 
of the fiercely fought inter-class con- 
tests, including hockey, basketball, and 
baseball games, track, and tennis 
matches. It is also responsible for 
our camp at Stone Mountain. 

Since it has occasioned so much 
excitement, it is well to explain what 
“Hoase-is. New members are selected 
by existing members from those stu- 
dents who during their freshman, 


sophomore, and junior years have]- 


been true servers of their Alma 
Mater. 

Another honorary society is Gamma 
Tau Alpha. It is similar to the Na- 
tional Phi Beta Kappa. Seniors are 
admitted to membership who through- 
out their college career have main- 
tained a high degree of excellence 
in their studies, who have indicated 


they have a broad grasp of the things | 


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New Students Regis- 
tered at Agnes Scott 
for 1924 


180 New Girls Here For Session 
1924-25 


Ackerman, Edna Page, Santa Mo- 
nica, Calif., Sturges. 


Alexander, Harriet Clifford, Augus- 
ta, Ga., 33 S. H. 
W sitersss: Leila Warren, 933 Vine- 
ville Ave., Macon, Ga., 63 Main. 

Anderson, Martha, 702 Hay Long 
Ave., Mount Pleasant, Tenn., 9 S. H. 

Anderson, Miriam Louise, Route 4, 
Woodleigh Farm, Winston-Salem, N. 
C., 4 Lupton. 

Anderson, Sarah, New Holland, Ga., 
101 Main. 

Ball, Grace St. Clair, 12 Galena 
Avenue, Montgomery, Ala., 68 S. H. 

Bell, Charlotte Robertson, Shelby- 
ville, Ky., 87 Main. 

Barnett, Ruth Kathryn, Oakland, 
Fla., 28 W.-H. 

Bennett, Eleanor Montine, 215 N. 
Park Ave., Tifton, Ga., 20 S. H. 

Black, Theresa Adams, Doerun, Ga., 
20 S. H. 

Brown, Dorothy Elizabeth, Ashe- 
ville, N. C., Sturges. 

Brown, Edith Dupre, Minden, La., 
90 Main. 
“Brown, Frances Campbell, 216 E. 
Frederick St., Staunton, Va., 67 S.-H. 

Bryan, Mary Esieile, Conyers, Ga., 
101 Main. 

Bultman, Mauriel M., New Orleans, 
La., 25 White House. 

Carithers, Kathleen, Comer, Ga., 3 


| Lupton, 


™ Carrier, Virginia, 225 Chestnut St., 
Asheville, N. C., 87 Main. 

Chay, Grace, Montreat, N. C., 7 W. 
H. 


Cole, Elizabeth, 50 West 15th St., 
Atlanta, Ga., 80 Main. 

Coleman, Dorothy Virginia, 530 
Maupus Avenue, Savannah, Ga., 54 
Main. 

Cook, Lucy Mai, Minden, La., 56 


A.S.C. Welcomes New *=*- 


Members of Faculty 


Nine New Members on 


Faculty 


The freshmen are told every year 
that on them depends the destiny of 
their college. True as this is, it is 
also true that the fate of a college is 
dependent on its teachers, as well. 
After considering the new students 
and the new teachers, we have come 
to the conclusion that Agnes Scott 
will fare well this year. 

How interesting are our “freshman 


faculty’! The new teachers are des- |” 


ignated thus for two reasons. One 
is that they are new in the same 
sense that the freshmen are; and the 
other, that so many have mistaken 
them for freshmen. 

Four of them, Emmie Ficklen, Fran- 
ces Amis, Cora Morton and Daisy 
Frances Smith graduated here last 
year, and are well known by the 
old girls, but are continually asked 
by new girls “Are you a freshman, 
too?’? While Miss Skeen is abroad, 
Emmie is assisting in Chemistry. 
Frances Amis is taking Miss Mitch- 


Cope, Emily Dasher, 1719 Aborcorn 
Street, Savannah, Ga., 50 Main. 
Crenshaw, Mary Cabanis, 10 How- 


The | ard St., Apt. 6; Atlanta, Ga., 48 Main. 


Crowther, Nancy Crenshaw, 23 Gor- 
don St., East, Savannah, Ga., 57 S. H. 
Currie, Sarah Katherine, Parkton, 
Robeson County, N. C., 96 Main. 
Daher, Helen, Nacoochee Institute, 
Sautee, Ga., 4 S. H. 
Daniel, Helen, Waynesboro, Ga., 80 
Main. ¢ 
Davidson, Betsey Brown, Lexing- 
ton, Va., 54 Main. 
“Dement, Huda, Wartrace, Tenn., 98 
Main. 
obyns, Mary Ray, 2033 Highland 
Avenue, Birmingham, Ala., 67 S. H. 
Doyal, Mary Jewett, 410 Second 
Avenue, Rome, Ga., 93 Main. 


Duncan, Juliette Emily, Athens, 
Ala., 33 S. H. 

Duncan, Katherine Melissa, Ala- 
magordo, N. Mex., Sturges. 

Dunn, Eleanor, Amite, La., 

Dunseith, Madelaine, Clearwater, 


Fla., Sturges. 
Dyer, Margaret Louise, 419 Hernan- 
do St., Lake City, Fla., 98 Main. 
Epstein, Ruth Clara, 210 W. 37th 
St, Savannah, Ga., 92 Main. 


ell’s place by helping Miss Gooch | Essig, Carolyn H., 715 N. Jackson 


with her expression classes. Cora Mor- 
ton is instructor in Mathematics. The 


Street, Atlanta, Ga., 43 Main. 
Fuller, Betty, Paseo Y Quince, Ve- 


departments of Education and Psy-j; dodo, Havana, Cuba, Sturges, 


chology. are yearly growing more 


Fox, Helen C., Norristown, Penn., 


popular, and as a great amount of Sturges. 


Mr. Stukes’ time is taken up by his 


Fisher, Sarah Elizabeth, Cochran, 


duties as registrar, it was necessary | Ga., 78 Main. 


to employ another instructor. Daisy 
Frances was chosen. 


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Ferrell, Alice, LaGrange, Ga., 50 
Main. 
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Opening Exercises 
Held September 10 


Dr. Carter Helm Jones Delivers 
Address 


Agnes Scott was formally opened 
for the session 1924-25 Wednesday 
morning, September 10, at two o’clock. 
The exercises were opened by a song, 
after which Dr. Dunkee read a prayer. 
This prayer was particularly eppro- 
priate for the occasion, because it 
was a prayer written by Agnes Scott, 
in whose honor the college was found- 
ed, for whom Agnes Scott was named. 
The scripture for the morning was 
read by Rev. Eakes, pastor of the 
Decatur Methodist church. Dr. Me- 
Ceathy of the Decatur Presbyterian 
church followed with a prayer. 

The address of the morning was de- 
livered by Dr. Carter Helm Jones, 
pastor of the Central Baptist church 
of Atlanta. In his address he wave 
a wonderful theme for Agnes Scott 
girls to remember throughout the 
year, that is that college is an intro- 
juction to life, for in college every girl 
has a chance to learn the things that 
will introduce her to a broader, clear- 
er understanding of life. 

Mrs. Donaldson, president of the 
Alumnae Association, gave a word 
of welcome and invitation to enjoy 
the tea room to both the old and new 
students. 

Mr. Orr, then our chairman of the 
board of trustees, gave some import- 
ant announcements and advice to all 
girls. 

The year opened with the most in- 
teresting plans and we are looking 
forwatd 06 a most successful year. 


Y.W.C.A. and Student 
Government Give 
Reception 


1924-’25 Begins 


Lecture Association Presents Plans for the 
Coming Year 


Dr. Leacock to Lecture 
at Agnes Scott on 
September 24 


Will Give Humorous Lecture 
“Frenzied Fiction” 


Agnes Scott indeed feels fortunate 
in haying secured for its first lecturer 
this year the celebrated Stephen D. 
Leacock. Mr. Leacock, who is known 
internationally as a famous wit and 
satirist, will lecture here on the after- 
noon of September 24th, on the sub- 
ject of “Frenzied Fiction.” All who 
have heard this lecture readily confirm 
the report that Mr. Leacock keeps his 
audience in a continuous uproar. 

The lecturer is not only a famous 
humorist but is a man of profound 
learning as well. He heads the de- 
partment of political economy at Mc- 
Gill University, Canada’s greatest 
school. It is said, however, that he 
belies the common impression of the 
serious-minded, dignified and more or 
less solemn college professor. For this 
reason he is most popular both as a 
teacher and as a speaker. 

Mr. Leacock has reached the 
heights of celebrity through his books 
and articles also. His books are writ- 
ten in the same witty manner that he 
talks and are widely read and enjoyed. 
“Nonsense Novels,” “Further Foolish- 
ness,” “Behind the Beyond,” are some 
of his best known volumes. His lat- 
est buok is “Aévoss the Footlights,” 
which tells the tale of the theatre 
before the day of high priced seats, 
the modern sex drama, and the spe- 
cialized musical reviews. ‘My Dis- 
covery of England,” published recent- 


j ly in Harper’s Magazine, is one of the 


most famous of a series of his funny 


The reception given in honor of the | articles. 


new students by the Y. W. C. A. and 
Student Government Association, last 
Saturday evening, Sept. 13th, was 
unusually well attended, despite the 
torrents of rain that poured down, 


off and on during the entire evening. 
According to custom, the old stu- 
dents acted as escorts to the new, 
and introduced them to the facuity 
and all the old students whose names 
they could remember. A delightful 
program of music and dancing was 
presented; Miss Helen Bates sing- 
ing, Miss Cocahontas Wight playing 
the violin, and Miss Gene Dozier giv- 
ing a solo dance. During the even- 
ing, punch was served, and the 
Freshmen presented with attractive 
favors. Among those in the receiv- 
ing line were Dr. McCain, Miss Hop- 
kins, Miss Alexander, Mrs. Syden- 
stricker, Miss Gaylord, Miss Ran- 
dolph, Mr. Holt, Miss Frances Lin- 
coln, Miss Mary Anne McKinney, and 
Miss Emily Spivey. 


CHANGES ON THE CAMPUS 


Infirmary Moved; and New Dormitory 
Opened 


Whoever thought that the infirmary 
was a staid and stable institution has 
had to change his mind, for during 
the summer, it was moved about two 
hundred feet nearer Candler Street in 
order to make room for the new gym- 
nasium building. The infirmary sur- 
vived the shock of moving well, its 
only loss being a little plastering. 

Nor can the infirmary claim the 
honor of being the only changed thing 
on the campus, for right next to Boyd 
there is another cottage, now inhabit- 
ed by some of the faculty members, 
and ten girls. The college has owned 
this cottage, Sturgis, for the past few 
years, but this is the first time in 
a number of years that it has been 
occupied by college students and fac- 
ulty. , 


As a lecturer, Stephen Leacock has 


| been a decided “hit” from his very 


first appearance. He has been ex- 
tremely popular for the past ten 
years, both in Canada, the United 
States, and England. He is a Cana- 
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Agnes Scott Tea at 
Montreat 


“Aones Scotters” at Montreat 
Hold Meeting 


One bright July day last summer, 
all Hottentots sojourning in Mon- 
treat, North Carolina, dressed in Sun- 
day best for an Agnes Seott tea at 
the sign of the “Copper Kettle.” Un- 
fortunate first-comers were pressed 
into service as a receiving line to wel- 
come Mr. Mandeville, Dr. MeCain, and 
distinguished Alumnae. There was 
a merry scramble for places in the 
quaint room with its huge stone fire 
place and dainty tables. Hottentots 
of the day discussed such vital ques- 
tions as Sophomore week and vaca- 
tion while their elders recalled for- 
mer escapades. 


After a delicious course of chick- 
en salad, hot rolls, ice tea, and cake, 
Mrs. Hazen Smith introduced the 
speakers for the afternoon. Mr. 
Mandeville expressed again his deep 
interest in Agnes Scott and his de- 
sire to be of service here. Dr. Mc- 
Cain cheered us with the news that 
the new gym was actually started and 
then outlined briefly the building pro- 
gram for the next few years. The 
present generation looked forward 
eagerly to seeing part of the greater 
Agnes Scott before it graduated, and 
the Alumnae marveled at its growth. 

The Alumnae told of mischief and 
experiences while Agnes Scott was 

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Dr. Stephen Leacock To Be First 
Lecturer 


The object of the Lecture Associa- 
tion has been to bring to the college 
important people who are doing out- 
standing work. In this it has been 
unusually successful. It has in the 
past been fortunate in obtaining for 
the college many noted speakers, who 
have been of great value in helping 
the students to keep abreast of the 
times. 

The members of the Association are 
making important plans for the year. 
Already they have secured for Sep- 
tember 24th Stephen Leacock, profes- 
sor of political science at McGill Uni- 
versity in Montreal. Besides being a 
leading member of the faculty at this 
university, Mr. Leacock is renowned 
as a foremost wit, humorist and satir- 
ist. His books have had a large sale 
in many English-speaking countries, 
and his magazine articles are widely 
known. As a lecturer he is in great 
demand everywhere, for it is on the 
platform that his genius finds its full- 
est and most delightful expression. 
Agnes Scott may indeed look forward 
to his visit with a great deal of pleas- 
ure and interest. 

The Lecture Association has not 
made definite arrangements for other 
speakers, but it has under considera- 
tion many prominent and entertaining 
lecturers. Among them are: Walter 
Camp, originator of “Walter Camp’s 
Daily Dozen,’ used the world over 
by busy brsiness men and health 
seekers in general, author of number- 
less treatises covering every branch 
of the field of sport, chairman of the 
Foreign Relations Committee of the In~ 
ternational Sports Club, and selector- 
of the “All-American” teams for va- 
rious branches of collegiate sport; Dr. 
Carl] Van Doren, literary editor of the 
Century Magazine, profesor of Eng- 
lish at Columbia University, and presi- 
dent of the “P. E. N.” Club (meaning 
the Club of Poets, Essayists and Nov- 


elists); Gutzon Borglum, the famous 
sculptor who is carving the Confed- 
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New Girls Entertained 


¥s 


W. C. A. Gives Floor 
Parties 


The annual floor parties were held 
on Friday night, Sept. 12, at 9:15. 
This is the time that all the new 
girls and all the old girls in the same 
“neighborhood get acquainted. This 
year there were six parties. Both 
floors of White House united and had 
one party in Lillian Middlebrooks’ 
room. In Inman there were three 
parties. The one on first floor was 
held in Eleanor Bennett’s room; on 
the second floor, in Frances Bitzer’s 
and Jack Ralston’s room; on third 
floor, in Grace Ethridge’s and Louise 
Plumb’s room. In Main, Jo Walker, 
Katherine Rickards, and Eliza Ramsey 
were hostesses for third floor, and 
Bee Keith, Virginia Norris, and Emily 
Kingsbury for second floor. All the 
parties were conducted in a similar 
way. Stunts and games occupied the 
first part of the hour. Judging from 
the laughter which emitted from the 
various windows, these afforded great 
amusement. Then refreshments of 
salted peanuts and chocolate drops 
were served, and after that, school 
songs were sung. During the even- 
ing, three strolling minstrels visited 
each scene of festivity. These were 
Sara Smith, Mildred Morrow, and 
Evelyn Powell, who sang several 
numbers to the accompaniment of 
Sara’s guitar and Mildred’s ukulele. 
Everyone pronounced the floor parties 
a complete success, 


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Margaret Terry 
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Lillian Middlebrooks 
Clyde Passmore 


Frances Buchanan 
Margaret Tufts 
Elizabeth Henderson 
Julia Pope 


Mildred Pitner 
Miriam Preston 
Mamie Shaw 


The Agonistic wishes to welcome each student at Agnes Scott 
in this, the first issue of our paper for the year 1924-1925. We 
are glad that there is such a large number of our old students back 
with us and for each of them the Agonistic wishes a most suc- 
cessful year. But especially do we wish to give a word of greeting 


to the incoming Freshman class. 


We are mighty glad to have 


you in our student body this year, and we hope that you will 
learn to love Agnes Scott in the coming year as much as we do. 


Perhaps it is needless to tell you, that the more you put into 
your college life, the more interest and love will you have for 
your Alma Mater. Agnes Scott has a place for each and every 
one of you. You will find on our campus every form of college 
activity. For those who are interested in writing we have our 
short story and journalistic clubs. For others there are the 
dramatic and debating clubs. Membership in these necessarily 
must be limited. So in order that we may have the best, member- 
ship is based on tryouts which will be held twice during the year. 


Agnes Scott Girls Have| Lecture Association 


Poems in “College 
Anthology” 


Cheatham and Bull Honored 


Presents Delightful 
Stunt 


The Lecture Association presented 


Agnes Scott is very proud of being|@ unique stunt in the chapel Mon- 


represented in the “College Antholo- 
gy” this year by the poems of Mar- 
garet Bull and Elizabeth Cheatham. 

The “College Anthology”, edited by 
Henry T. Schnittkind is an anthology 
of the best poetry written by the col- 
lege students of the United States. 
The 1923-24 copy of the anthology is 
the sixth edition and Agnes Scott has 
been represented in each edition be- 
ginning with a poem by Agnes White 
in 1915-16. Other Agnes Scott girls 
whose poems have been in the antho- 
logy are Margaret Bland, Janef Pres- 
ton, India Hunt, Alice Cooper, Fran- 
ces Markley, Elizabeth Enloe, Mar- 
jorie Lowe. 

The two lovely poems by Elizabeth 
Cheatham and Margaret Bull, which 
were chosen this year are below: 

Wishes 
Like leaves borne whirling to the sky 
By a gust of light wind passing by, 
Wishes, wilful truants of my mind, 
Fly high and leave me far behind. 


Up, out in the star-fires lighted space 
The Weaver, weaving with brooding 
face, 


Catches my wishes in a web of gleams, 
And sends them back to me as dreams. 


—Margaret Bull. 


Court-House Window 
I watched the rain come—gray and 
silver-white, 
Advancing very voicelessly and still, 
And saw it spread abroad enchanted 
light, 
And let my thirsty spirit take its 
fill. 


It hung in thin unearthly mystic veils 
On city buildings, brick and drab 


day night after prayers. The de- 
lightful humor of this pleasant recre- 
ation kept all present laughing, as 
they watched the career of Verdena 
Ignoramus, who came to Agnes Scott 
with very little learning, but a great 
deal of sophistication. Verdena made 
up for her mental deficiency by array- 
ing herself in the latest, most fash- 
ionable costumes and by spending her 
energy and her valuable time in pop- 
ping gum, slicking her hair with ban- 
doline, and applying cosmetics to her 
fair young countenance. But woe and 
alas! Even sophistication avails 
naught when Cupid enters with his 
bow and arrows. Verdena fell des- 
perately in love with a serious mind- 
ed, learned Ph. D. She was a total 
wreck over her mental imperfections, 
and the poor girl was indeed in a 


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History in her place. After she grad- 
uated from Trinity, she went to Penn- 
sylvania for her M. A. A number of 
the graduate students, she among 
them, were put in a ramshackly, mice 
infested, dormitory. Students, she 
says, hold no terrors for her, since 
she aided in conquering those mice. 
Her home is Durham, and it is pro- 
phesied that she will make a valuable 


The Y. W. C. A. takes this oppor- 
tunity to again extend to the new 
girls the glad hand of fellowship. We 
have been trying in various ways to 
express to you our joy at having you 
on the campus, and we hope you will 
come to us with any troubles we 
may be able to help you solve, or 
with any suggestions which will bet- 
ter the organization. 


The Cabinet girls came up the week 
end before school started and went 
to Pine Lodge to plan the program 
for the coming year. It was a most 
delightful camp, for mingled with 
the work, were delightful swims and 
tramps through the woods, to say 
nothing of the joy of sitting around 
an open fire singing, while the moon 
peeped through the window at us. 
Dudley proved herself a most able 
steak fryer, and I refer anyone to 
Mary and Jinks if they have any te- 
dious jobs, such as fixing oil stove 
wicks, to be done; of course no one 
could excel Peg as a dish-washer and 
Dick as a chaperon—Dick even 
peeled potatoes while we did the men- 
tal work. 

Besides all our good times we have 
arranged a program for this year 
which we hope will mean a great deal 
to the girls on the campus. We are 
going to think of the Jesus Way of 
doing things, and we hope to come 
closer to him on our campus through 
this subject. 


member of the North Carolina Club. 

Miss Gault also rooms in Boyd, A9. 
She lives in Chicago, graduated from 
the University of Chicago, and was 
assistant teacher there. She is going 
to hold Spanish classes here, but 
does not guarantee to teach Spanish. 
For those who do not know her, I'll 
state that she is the teacher who has 
been having to carry her mail in a 
large waste paper basket. 


The Student Industrial Committee 
is making great plans for this year. 
We hope to have at least ten or 
twelve college girls and the same 
number of industrial girls on the com- 
mittee. We are going to study the 
laws of the different states in regard 
to the women in industry. How 
many of you know how many hours 
a day the women in your state may 


concrete, 
But there is another organization on the campus in which you| And made long quivering white paths 
may immediately begin your work. The Agonistic is your paper. and trails 
The staff is anxious to make this year the very best one we have| Down far below me on the asphalt 
ever had. We welcome new ideas and suggestions for the paper; street. 


if you have any won’t you see some member of the staff and give 
her your suggestion ? 


The Agonistic is published by the students of Agnes Scott. In 
order to do this we must have reporters. We want you, members 
of the Freshman class, to give us your co-operation and help in 


this way to make our paper truly representative of the Agnes 
Scott student body. 


How fairy-like the spires rise from the 
rain! 
And that blue looming dome—how 
near it seems! 
My spirit tiptoes up, all glad again, 
And I am lost in wonder and in 
dreams, 


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ACTIVITIES AT AGNES SCOTT, 
THEIR ORGANIZATIONS 
AND PURPOSE 
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of the present, and a vision of future 
attainments. Membership in Gamma 
Tau is the highest scholastic honor 
which Agnes Scott offers. 

There are also on the campus 
“Subject” clubs. Anyone taking Bible 
is automatically a member of the 
Bible Club. Those taking higher 
French, Mathematics, History, Latin, 
or Greek, are eligible for member- 
ship in the French, Math, Internation- 
al Relations, and Classical Clubs, re- 
spectively. 

There are literary clubs to meet 
the liking of anyone who has a taste 
for writing. Folio is a short story 
club for freshmen, and B, O. Z, a 
similar organization for upper class- 
men. Try-outs are made by submit- 
‘ting an original short story. These 
two clubs afford constant opportuni- 
ties for their members to write, and 
at regular meetings, constructive 
criticism is made. Those who find 
that they readily express themselves 
in meter—even those who can write 
vers libre—are invited to join the 
Poetry Club. It has already come 
into renown since the national ap- 
preciation of poems written by Miss 
Preston, Janice Brown, Elizabeth 
Cheatham and other members. K, U. 
B. serves a double purpose. It en- 
ables those interested in journalism 
to report for large city newspapers, 
and it furnishes news of Agnes Scott 
to the outside world. 

Music is not neglected. Those who 
can sing are urged to try out for the 

Choral Society and Glee Club. The 
first presents Handel's “Messiah” an- 
nually on the Sunday afternoon before 
Christmas, and the second gives con- 
certs during the year on the campus, 
and last year even made a short tour. 
The orchestra is another musical or- 


ganization. It furnishes the music 
at the weekly Tuesday night sings, 
at rallies, and also at meetings of 
various clubs in Atlanta. It has the 
added distinction of having sent its 
music over radio. Anyone who plays 
some sort of instrument is asked to 
try out for the orchestra. 


“More rain,” Miss Button says; “just 


look at it! 
You reckon it ain’t never goin’ to 
quit?” 
—Elizabeth Cheatham. 


A. S. C. WELCOMES NEW MEM- 


BERS OF FACULTY 


Miss Sinclair is the new gym. teach- 
er. Both she and Miss Gault have 
bobbed hair. Miss Sinclair comes to 
us from Columbia, where she has been 
doing graduate work. She has had 
interesting experiences as mountain 
school teacher and athletic director 
at Camps. Her home is in Hampton, 
Va., and she is at the Ansley home 
while here. 

Miss McDougall, who has _ been 
away on a two years’ leave of ab- 
sence, is new to all of us except tHe 
present senior class. While away, 
she studied at Columbia and got a 
Ph. D. as a reward for her labor. She 
is with us again and will resume her 
duties as head of the department of 
Biology. 


work? How many of you care? We 
want you to know, and we want you 
to care! It is of the utmost import- 
ance to your sisters in the industrial 
world. You will hear a great deal 
more of this in the future. Read it, 
for it concerns you. 

All girls who are interested in 
student industrial work please talk 
with Eugenia Thompson. She will 
be glad of all the co-operation and 
assistance you can give. 


Despairing Senior: “Professors are 
worse than immigration authorities at 
Ellis Island these days.” 

Freshman: “How’s that?” 

Senior: “They have swiped the slo- 
gan, ‘They shall not pass’,” 


One of the clubs which the orches- 
tra aids, is the Cotillion Club. It was 
organized for the purpose of promot- 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 1.) 


Dr. Good informs us that we are 


For your convenience we have just purchased the Wil- 
son Drug Co., located at 321 East College Avenue. We 
expect to “carry on” the same high service and give 
the same excellent values as we have always done in 


ing a high type of dancing at Agnes 
Scott. Good dancers from the fresh- 
man ranks may try out for this. 
Black Friars is our only dramatie 
club, Under the able direction of 
Miss Gooch, it generally gives one 
long play and a series of short ones 
during the year, and a long play at 
Commencement. The new students 
who have a talent for acting will be 
porti nity to try out after 


Almost everyone who has heard of 
Agnes Scott has heard of the annual 
triangular debates in which Sophie 
Newcomb and Randolph Macon also 
take part. Agnes Scott is proud of 
losing only two of the eight debates 
in which she has taken part. One of 
the reasons for such a good record 
is that Pi Alpha Phi, our debating so- 
ciety, keeps those who have ability 
in practice throughout the year. 
Freshmen are allowed to try out for 
Pi Alpha Phi during the fall. 

An organization which is of great 
benefit to the students, is the Lecture 
Association. It requires less work of 
its members than almost any other 
organization on the campus, yet the 
good which it furnishes them is ke- 
yond calculation. All that is neces- 
sary for membership is the payment 
of two dollars for a season ticket to 
the lectures, which number from half 
a dozen up, given by some of the 
world’s most worthwhile people. Any 
of the old students can testify that 
it returns more than “value received” 
to its members. 


wrong about the new teachers. 
a single person has mistaken him 
for a freshman. 
G. S. C. W., where he was head of 
the department of English, 
highly recommended by both the au- 
thorities and students. 
Dr. Salyer’s place. 
further information may find it in 
“Who’s Who in America.” 


student affairs, 


Not 
He comes here from 
very 
He will take 


Those ‘desiring 


Although our rule failed when ap- 


plied to Dr. Good, there are four new 
teachers, 
Miss Gault, and Miss Sinclair, who 
can recount many amusing incidents 
in which they were mistaken for 
freshmen. At the reception, when one 


Miss Brown, Miss Cole, 


of them met a junior prominent in 
the junior asked, 
“What is your first name? I never 
can remember last names.” A 
sophomore tried ‘to sell her Latin I 


‘books to another, and the third was 


asked if she had arranged her courses 
yet. When one of them, in White 
House Dining Room, stopped at Mrs. 
Firnell’s table, a senior exclaimed, 
“Quick! Let’s rescue that freshman— 
she’s about to sit at the faculty table.” 

Miss Brown, who rooms at A6 Boyd, 
teaches Biology. She graduated at 
Goucher and was assistant there be- 
fore she came here. Her home is in 
Baltimore, Md., and she says this is 
her first trial at living in college 
dormitories. 

Miss Cole rooms across the hall 
from her in room 3. As Miss Cooper, 
who was here last year is going to 
get married, Miss Cole is teaching 


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AGNES SCOTT TEA. AT 
MONTREAT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4.) 
yet an institute. The oldest graduate 
confessed to hanging out a main win- 
dow to bid farewell to some boys 
leaving by the South Decatur car. 


Obedience was prompt when Miss 
Hopkins entered quietly saying: 
“Young ladies, there will be no 


diplomas tomorrow unless you retire 
immediately.” We heard of a midnight 
feast in the tower room consisting 
of dry loaves attached from the 
store room; Mrs. Mott Martin of Af- 
rica spoke of her desire to uphold 
the honor of Agnes Scott and of her 
mortification and grief when she, 
dressed in a middy suit, met the 
guests of a reception; she had failed! 
Beth McClure outlined the unsung 
progress of the class of °23 with the 
clap of thunder at its close. 

After the reminiscences of our 
Alumnae, Elizabeth Lynn told of our 
Stone Mountain Camp as the most 
interesting event of the past year. 
Elizabeth Norfleet, after asking Dr. 


McCain’s pardon, gave us this choice | 
bit: Edna Anderson had hidden be-| 


hind main door and scared some girls 
with such satisfactory results that 
she determined to repeat the stunt. 
Hearing some one coming, she jumped 
out erying “Boo!” “How do you do, 
M'am?” gravely rejoined our presi- 


| dent. 


Grace Clay spoke of her delight 
on reaching Agnes Scott at last. She 
had first heard of this college in far 
Korea and had kept it as a goal for 
many years. 

Finally the resolution was adopted 
that this gathering be written up for 
the Agonistic and the alumnae paper, 


Hottentot, and Whooper Up. When 
the guests left, we promised to meet 
again at the Auditorium that night 
to sing for Agnes Scott at a meet- 
ing of schools and colleges, A. S. C. 
had the largest delegation. 

Some of those present were Dr. Mc- 
Cain, Mr. Mandeville, Miss Charlotte 
Jackson, Mrs. Hazen Smith, Eloise 
Knight, Beth McClure, and other 
Alumnae, Elizabeth Lynn, Elizabeth 
Norfleet, Elizabeth Lilly, Nancy Lou 
Knight, Nan Lingle, Grace Carr, Grace 
Chay, Elizabeth Ruff, and Miriam 
Preston, the only granddaughter of 
Agnes Scott present. 

‘ —Miriam Preston. 


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Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


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Phone 
Dec. 0640 


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Dependable Quality— 
Moderately Priced! 


We hope to number many new 
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your every need. Here you 


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Call your doctor, then call Decatur 0929, and we 


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Agnes Scott girls are always 


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AGONISTIC 


Cosmopolitan A.S.C. 


This year Agnes Scott, scorning her 
former narrow limits, has chosen her 
girls from both sides of the globe. 
Among her daughters she boasts six 
girls from Korea—one a real Korean 


—Grace Chag; the Owen sisters, 
Margaret Bull and Miriam Preston; 
three girls from China—the Grier sis- 
ters and Sara McFadgen; three from 
Cuba; and one from India—Moag Fer- 
guson. 

Beside these girls from other lands 
there are those from widely separat- 
ed states: Edna Ackerman from Hol- 
lywood, Calif.; Katherine Duncan 
from New Mexico; Ruth Livermore, 
from Oklahoma; Charlotte Sleayton, 
from Vermont; and Mary Anne Mc- 
Kinney, who is an old friend from 
the Lone Star State. This. year we 
have the broadening influence of 
travel here on the campus, and we 
hope to be much more sophisticated 
| by June. 


| DR. LEACOCK TO LECTURE AT 
| AGNES SCOTT SEPTEMBER 24 
(Centinued from Page 1, Column 4.) 


dian by birth, but has spent much of 
his time in this country, and so most 
of his literary efforts concern the 
people of the United States. 

It is a great opportunity for the 
college community at Agnes Scott to 
be favored with a visit from Prof. 
Leacock, for he gives only a limited 
number of lectures each season and it 
is a privilege to have him on the se- 
ries of any college. 


LECTURE ASSOCIATION  PRE- 
SENTS PLANS FOR THE 
COMING YEAR 
(Continued from Page 1, Cclumn 5.) 


eracy Memorial on the face of Stone 
Mountain and who is a man of un- 
usual refinement and culture, his lec- 
tures on the Confederacy Memorial, in 
particular, and art themes in general, 
being fascinating in the extreme; 
Karle Wilson Baker, a noted poetess; 
Fannie Hurst, whose novels, maga- 
zine articles and syndicated editorials 
have struck a responsive chord with 
the American reading public and 
whose superior intelligence and un- 
| usual charm of manner have gained 
for her great popularity as a speaker. 
The Lecture Association is one of 
the most valuable organizations on 
the campus, for it seeks to give the 
students an intelligent interest in af- 
fairs of the present day. It strongly 
merits the loyal support and sincere 
| co-operation of all who have the best 
interests of the college at heart. 


Professor to chemistry class—‘So 
now you see the invisibility of gas.” 


Phone Decatur 1034-0385 
BURSON BROTHERS 
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Alumnae News 


The Atlanta Branch of the Agnes 
Scott Alumnae Association held its 
first meeting of this year on Tues- 
day, September 16. An unusually 
large number of graduates were in 
attendance. Dr. McCain made the 
opening address, and Miss Hopkins 
graced the audience with her pres- 
ence. The place of meeting was at 
the home of Mrs. Harold Wey, ex- 
president of the association. Delicious 
refreshments were served. 

Miss Emma Jones Smith (Mrs. H. 
F.), of Montgomery, Ala., is on a 
visit here at the Alumni House. 

The many friends of Charlotte Kees- 
ler (’23), of Greenwood, Miss., will 
be interested to learn of her recent 
marriage to Mr. Legrand Everett. 

Mrs. Julia Heygood Cuthbertson 
(20) has recently moved into her 
new home which is next door to 
Coma Burgess. She is at home to 
her friends there. 

Mrs. D. Little, nee Miss Aimee D. 
Glover, has her residence in Marietta. 

Miss Frances Charlotte Markley 
(21) accompanied Miss Gibbons on 
her tour of Europe this summer. 

The marriage of Miss Annadown 
Watson (’24) to Dr. Robert Crawford 
Edwards, of Ft. Myers, Fla., was an- 
nounced several weeks ago. 

Mrs. Charles Franklin Hudson, nee 
Miss Elizabeth Reviere, is at home 
to her friends at Camp Benning, Ga. 

Miss Cora L. Richardson, of Haw- 
kinsville, holds the chair of history 
this year in the high school at La- 
fayette, Ga. 

Miss Frances Whitfield (’21) heads 
the department of Latin at Kisimee, 
Fla., this year. 

Miss Frances Amis and Miss Daisy 
Frances Smith are being welcomed 
at Agnes Scott this year as “faculty” 
members. Both are assistants in the 
English department. 

Miss Annie Wilson Terry holds a 
responsible position in the English 
department of Greenville, Ala. 

Miss Elizabeth Askew has charge 
of the primary department at Tate, 
Ga. 


Y. W. C. A. Gives Tea For 
Freshmen 


The college community was invited 
by the social committee of the Y. W. 
C. A. to a tea, to be given in honor 
of the new girls, in the summer home 
on Friday afternoon at four-thirty. 
Those who attended were able to say, 
“I’m somebody, who are you?” and 
to have their question answered, for 
everyone wore his name pinned in a 
conspicuous place. Making acquaint- 
ances and drinking punch kept every- 
one delightfully busy for an hour and 
a half. Both the old and the new 
girls were glad to meet Dr. and Mrs. 
Good, who have just come to Agnes 
Seott, and to see little Charles Me- 
Cain, who rode up to the summer 
house in his carriage. A vote of 
thanks is due the Y. W. C. A. for ar- 
ranging this delightful method for 
the old and new girls to get ac- 
quainted. 


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We are headquarters 

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NEW STUDENTS REGISTERED AT 
AGNES SCOTT FOR 1924 


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Fountain, Lochie Grace, Reynolds, 
Ga., 23: W. H. 

Gaines, Eloise, 18 Park Lane, At- 
Janta, Ga., 49 Main. 

Goeslin, Louise, 725 College Street, 
Macon, Ga., 35 S. H. 

Gerig, Margaret, Ocala, Fla., Mrs. 
Stevenson’s. 


Gill, Mary Agnes, Fayetteville, 
Tenn., 78 Main. 

Girardeau, Sara Louise, 161 St. 
Charles Avenue, Atlanta, Ga., 102 
Main. 

— Glenn, Sarah Priscilla, Gastonia, 
N. C., 80 Main. 

Graves, Olive, 110 S. Monroe St., 
Albany, Ga., 38 S. H. 

Gray, Kathleen Ward, 704 N. 


Church St., Charlotte, N. C., 63 S. H. 
Gunn, Margaret Ethel, 2600-11th 
St., Meridian, Miss., 17 W. H. 
Grier, Elizabeth Hemphill, Suchow- 
fu, Ku China, Sturges. 
Grier, Lucy H., Suchowfu, 
China, Sturges. 
“~Harper, Anne Dorothy, 510 Broad 
Street, Albany, Ga., 1 S. H. 
Henderlite, Rachel, Gastonia, N. C., 
Main. 
Hillhouse, 
46 S. H. 

Hinman, Cara, 759 Piedmont Ave- 
nue, Atlanta, Ga., 48 Main. 

Hoffman, Jessie Powel, 
ville, Tenn., Lupton. 
“Hough, Mary Mackey, Lancaster, 5. 
C., 78 Main. 

Houston, Josephine Phifer, 712 N. 
College St., Charlotte, N. C., 86 Main. 

Howell, Carolyn, 1321 Wingfield 
St., Augusta, Ga., 938 Main. 

Huntley, Mary Josephine, 926 W. 
Fourth St., Winston-Salem, N. C., 100 
Main. — 

Jaudon, Hermione, 404 N. E. 27th 
St., Miami, Fla., 66 S. H. 

Jennings, Gladys, West Point, Ga., 
69 Main. 

Jones, Leila Mae, No. 4, Jefferson, 


Ku 


64 


Nell, Waynesboro, Ga., 


Surgoins- 


a., 4 W. H 
 Junkin, Mary Moreland, % Houston 
St., Lexington, Va., 79 Main. 

Kalmon, Hilda, 707 N. Jackson St., 
Albany, Ga., 56 S. H. 

Kalmon, Kathryn, re! N. Jackson 
St., Albany, Ga., 56 S. H. 

~ Kamper, Vora wines 69 St. 
Charles Place, Atlanta, Ga., 49 Main. 

“=~ Keith, Margaret Louise, 314 Earle 

Street, Greenville, S. C., 72 Main, 

King, Mary Hortense, Fort Gaines, 
Ga., 23 S. H. 

e~Kingsbery, Emily Coleman, Frank- 

lin, N. C., 72 Main. 
/Knight, Adah V., Safety Harbor, 
Fla., (No wat Montreat, N. C.,) 4S. H. 
“Knight, Evelyn, Safety Harbor, Fla., 
Pits Se = # 

Knight, Gilberta, Big Stone Gap, 
Va., 85 S. H. 

Lamont, Isabel Jean, Raeford, N. 
C., 69 Main. 

LeConte, Lillian King, 1074 Pied- 


“Norris, Virginia, 


Ga., 101 Main. 
McConkey, Mary-Bell, 5362 Maple 
Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., 48 S. H. 
McCoy, Mary Jane, 434 E. Court St., 
Washington, C. H., Ohio, 22 W. H. 
MacDonald, Janet Lauck, 65 S. Min- 
eral Street, Keyser, W. Va., 43 Main. 
McFadyen, Sarah L., c/o Mrs. J. W. 
McLauchlin, Montreat, N. C., Sturges. 


McKinnon, Gwendolyn Hardin, 
Hartsville, S. C., 3 8S. H. 
McKinnon, Katherine, McLaurin, 


Maxton, N. C., 96 Main . 

McLaurin, Grace, Laurinburg, N. C., 
3S: H, 

McLellon, Ellott May, 733 Indiana 
Avenue, Charleston, W. Va., 22 W. H. 

McShane, Bayliss Elizabeth, Green- 
wood, Miss., 2 Gaines. 

Malone, Ermine DuPont, 
Fla., 62. Main. 

Miller, Virginia, 444 13th Avenue, 
Huntington, W. Va., 24 W. H. 

Mixson, Margaret Virginia, Dunnel- 
lon, Fla., 62 S. H. 

New, Frances 
Ga,, 5 Lupton. 


Quincy, 


Louise, Abbeville, 
1217 Pendleton 
St., Greenville, S. C., 72 Main. 
Patterson, Lillian Elizabeth, Osce- 
, Ark., Mrs. Cunningham's, 
(’Perkinson, Mary Louise, 
stock, Ga., 63 Main. 

Porcher, Lila, 120 Copeland St., 
Jacksonville, Fla., 57 S. H. 

Ramey, Eliza Beverley, Marshall, 
Va., 103 Main. 

Rice, Margaret, 409 W. Tuscaloosa 
St., Florence, Ala., 55 Main. 

Rickards, Katharine, 709 S. Olive 
St., West Palm Beach, Fla., 103 Main. 

Riviere, Mary Richey, Box 892, Fort 
Benning, Ga., 24 R. S. H. 

Roark, Elizabeth, Franklin, Ky., 102 
Main. 

Robeson, Mabel. Arline, 308 N. Sec- 
ond St., Wilmington, N. C., 1 Lupton. 

Ruff, Ann Elizabeth, E. 516 12th 
Ave., N., St. Petersburg, Fla., 77 
Main. (Now at Montreat, N. C.) 

Sanders, Nannie Graham, Max Mea- 
dow, Va., Mrs. Cunningham’s. 

Sherfesee, Louise, Greenville, S. C., 
77 Main. 

Shepherd, Mary Walker, Sewanee 
Tenn., Sturges. 

Simms, Jennie Dell, Roanoke, Ala., 
16 W. H. 

Slayton, Charlotte, 
Vermont, 9 S. H. 

Slocumb, Eloise Provine, Edwards, 
Miss., 7 S. H. 

Southgate, Laura Frances, 25 N. 
Ft. Thomas Ave., Ft. Thomas, Ky., 
88S. H. 


Wood- 


Morrissville, 


Sydnor, Louise Leyburn, Charles 
Town, W. Va., 100 Main. 

Stegall, Mary Elizabeth, Jasper, Ga., 
3 Lupton. 


Stevens, Mary Ellen, Younges Is- 

, S. C., 3 Lupton. 

Thomas, Ruth Trueheart, 529 Long- 

wood Avenue, Bedford, Va., 79 Main. 
Wallace, Elizabeth B., Tifton, Ga., 


Sturges. 
“Walker, Josephine Trenholm, Sum- 


merville, S. C., 103 Main. 
Watson, Georgia Doeremus, Thom- 


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mont Avenue, Atlanta, Ga., 86 Main. 
“= Livermore, Ruth, Chickasha, Okla- 
homa, 1 8. H. 
Lowrance, Annie Irene, 428 Jack- 
son Avenue, Charlotte, N. C., 63 S. H. 
McAliley, Mary Leigh, 189 West|17th St., Atlanta, Ga., 48 Main. 
End, Chester, S. C.,7S.H. . White, Lillian, Buchanan, Ga., 102 
McCollum, Anna Mae, Thomasville,‘ W. H. 


son, Ga., 56 S, H. 

Weems, Leonora Clayton, McDon- 
ough, Ga., 48 S. H. 

Weill, Hermenia DeJough, 133 E. 


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for the College Girl 


Fi xttavagantly smart 
coats—at Rich’s. Lav- 
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of them. Warm furs, 
flatteringly becoming to 
young faces. Luxurious 
fabrics. We invite the 
college girl to come to see 
them—try them on. 


$16.95, $39.75, $49 and 
more 


Rich’s, Third Floor 


M. Rich & Bros. Co. 


“All work and no play makes Jane 
a dull girl.” Surely the founders of 
the athletic association had this truth 
in mind when they wrote the constitu- 
tion years ago. At any rate since 
the beginning this association has 
taken care of the play element of 
our college life just as efficiently as 
Miss Laney and Miss Smith have the 
labor question. 

First of all there is the great big 
rally with a sure enough bonfire. 
Everyone snake-dances about the ath- 
letic field; and such pep, you’ve never 
seen! On this night we are introduced 
to each sport individually, the respec- 
tive managers greeting us with some 
witty saying appropriate to her favor- 
ite sport. This informal introduction 
marks the beginning of a steadfast 
friendship between students and the 
athletic year. Many thrilling events 
result. 

During the fall months hockey holds 
sway; then basketball follows the 
Christmas holidays; and the spring 
brings baseball and track, while ten- 
nis and hiking may be enjoyed the 
year round. The orchestra and the 
rings which afford us a pleasant even- 
ing each week are also under the 
direction of the athletic association. 
Camp-life, too, may be reveled in each 
week-end, 

“Pine Lodge,” a new asset to the 
association, is situated near Stone 
Mountain on a beautiful lake, Can you 
imagine anything more glorious than 
a Saturday and Sunday spent before 
an open fire away from bells? 

But all these joys could not be pos- 
sible without the aid of our athletic 
coaches. Miss Randolph and Miss 
Haynes have been our own for some- 
time, but this year we welcome a 
new “gym’’ teacher, Miss Sinelaire, 
into our midst. Even yet the associa- 
tion could not be perfect without its 
student officers. The athletic board 
for the term 1924-25 is: 

Emily Spivey, president. 

Mary Keesler, vice president and 
manager of tennis. 

Eunice Kell, secretary. 

Sarah Slaughter, treasurer. 

Elizabeth Norfleet, orchestra lead- 
er, 

Helena Hermance, song leader. 

Eleanor Albright, camp manager. 

Evelyn Powell, hockey manager. 

Elizabeth Lynn, basketball man- 
ager. 

Elizabeth Blalock, baseball 
ager. 

Ellen Fain, track manager. 

Miriam Preston, hike manager. 

Virginia Seviere, manager of lost 
and found store. 


man. 


Williams, Irma, 310 Broad St., 
Gadsden, Ala., 9 S. H. 
Watkins, Emily Mells, Jackson, | 


Miss, 62 S. H. 


Day Students 
Ball, Eunice, 708 W. College Ave., | 
Decatur, Ga. 
Ball, Jane Easter, 17 Delaware Ave., 
Atlanta, Ga. 


Barnnett, Alice Evelyn, 416 E. 
Howard St., Decatur, Ga. 

Bledsoe, Myrtle, 216 Jones Ave., 
Atlanta, Ga. 


Carligle, Della E., 315 Church St., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Cash, Perlina E., 205 Stewart Ave., 
Atlanta, Ga, 

Choate, Anne, 11 The Prado, At- 
lanta, Ga. 

Clinkscales, Jennie Irene, 313 Drex- | 
al Ave., Decatur, Ga. 

Crawford, Una Ruth, 2624 21st 
Ave. N., Birmingham, Ala. 

Collins, Patricia Harriett, 
Jackson St., Atlanta, Ga. 
“Cunningham, Mary Elizabeth, 177 S. 
Candler St., Decatur, Ga. 

Davis, Elsie B., East Lake, Decatur, 
Ga. 

Enloe, Alice, Buchanan, Ga. 

Garretson, Irene, Decatur, Ga. 

Gerschow, Hattie, 230 Jonesboro 
Road, Atlanta, Ga. 

Gobere, Eugenia, 80 Briarcliff Rd., 
Atlanta, Ga. 

Griffin, Muriel, Covington, Ga. 

Guffin, Blanche Catherine, 10 Eliza- 
beth Place, Atlanta, Ga. 


701 N. 


| Guller, Catherine Louise, Jackson- 
; Ville, Fla. 
Hargis, Frances Lee, 541 Whitehall, 


; Atlanta, Ga. 


Hudson, Elizabeth H., 159 Woodland 
Ave., Atlanta, Ga, 


Hunter, Alice Louise, 877 E. Or- 
mand, Atlanta, Ga. 
Jones, Anais Cay, 99 W. 12th St., 
flanta, Ga. 
Knight, Anne Angier, 279 N. More- 
land, Atlanta, Ga. 

GLake, Marguerite D., Wilkins- 
burg, Pa. 

Levy, Esther, 285 E. Hunter, At- 
lanta, Ga. 

Lowe, Lamar, 273 Lee St., Atlanta, 
Ga. 

McEntire, Mary Elizabeth, Calhoun, 
Ga. 

Metcalfe, Alma Frances, 112 Church 
St., Decatur, Ga. 

Napier, Julia O., 635 Sycamore St., 
Decatur, Ga. 

Overton, Martha Lou, 241 W. How- 
ard, Decatur, Ga. 

Papageorge, Evangeline 
Formwalt, Atlanta, Ga. 

Phippen, Mildred Bruce, 229 Wilton 
Drive, Decatur, Ga. 

Pratt, Wilma, Hemphill, Texas. 

Riley, Martha B., 491 Capital, At- 
lanta, Ga. 

Ramage, Mary Martin, 224 King’s 
Highway, Atlanta, Ga. 

Ramage, Emily Vanidier, 224 King’s 
Highway, Atlanta, Ga. 

Sanders, Rosalthe, 111 McDonough, 
Decatur, Ga. 

Sayward, Mary T., 403 S. Candler, 
Decatur, Ga. 

Skeen, Virginia, 126 E. Ponce de 
Leon, Atlanta, Ga. 

Smith, Florence, 30 MeLendon Ave.. 
Atlanta, Ga. 

Spratt, Dorothy, 68 E. Avon Ave., 
Atlanta, Ga. 

Stone, Della, 423 Sycamore St., De- 
catur, Ga. 

Tate, Bessye Evelyn, Pettus, Ark. 

Todd, Ann McKinney, 745 Ponce de 
Leon, Atlanta, Ga. 

Turner, Martha Claudia, Hawkins- 
ville, Ga, 

Volberg, Edna M., 
Atlanta, Ga. 

Walstrom, Elizabeth May, Atlanta, 
Ga 
7 a Sarah, 260 N. Moreland, 
Atlanta, Ga. 

Wiggins, Aileen, 217 E. Ponce de 
Leon, Decatur, Ga. 


T., 283 


36 Queen St., 


Wiggins, Mary Frances, 156 &., 
Georgia Ave., Atlanta, Ga, 

Williams, Nancy Elizabeth, Macon, 
Ga. 

Wolfle, Charlotte Christine, 132 Ad- 
ams, Decatur, Ga. 

Wolfle, Nana Winfield, 132 Adams, 
Deeatur, Ga. 


LECTURE ASSOCIATION PRE- 
SENTS DELIGHTFUL STUNT 
(Continued from Page 2, Column 4.) 


sad plight when the lecture associa- 
tion came to her rescue with balm 
for the worried, untaught mind. Ver- 
dena drank deeply of the fountain of 
knowledge to which the renowned 
visitors brought to Agnes Scott by 
the Lecture Association enabled her 
to turn her eager steps. After 
gleaning quite an amount of varied 
information from such distinguished 
personages as DuBose Heyward, Jus- 
tice Florence E. Allen and Princess 
Dona Santa Borgless, Verdena had 
become so enlightened that she ob- 
tained her heart's desire. Her adored, 
her beloved Ph. D. flopped, and 
flopped with the longed-for certainty 
of a lover, caught but blissful. 

Moral: Buy a lecture ticket and be- 
come intelligent and interesting. 

Characters: 

Verdena Ignoramus, Eloise Harris. 

Ph. D., Ellen Douglass Leyburn 

DuBose Heyward, Grace Augusta 
Ogden. 

Justice Florence E, Allen, Florence 
Perkins. 

Princess Dona Santa Borgiless, Hel- 
ena Hermance. 


Tom—‘"Say, can you tell a young 
chicken from an old one?” 

Dick—“Of course; by the teeth.” 

Harry—“But chickens don't have 
teeth.” 

Dick—“Yes, but I have.” 


Teacher: “Will you please name an 
organ of the body?” 


Billy: “A tooth.” 
Teacher: “And what kind of organ 
is that?” 


Billy: “A grind-organ!” 


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Friday Night 


“Pe lanky-lanky-lanky woodle-woo- 
dle tweedle-dum; sophomores! soph- 
omores! Singing this doleful chant, 
the members of the sophomore com- 
mittee entered the darkened hall of 
the chapel on the night of Wednes- 
day last to lay down the law by which 
the Freshman class should abide for 
the rest of the week. The following 
rules and regulations were read aloud 
by the Sonhomore president, Ellen 
Douglas Leyburn, while every fresh- 
man listened with silent and solemn 
awe: 

“1. All freshmen must be able to 
sing any tune written since 1492. 

“2. All freshmen must be able to 
sing the laundry list. 

“3. All freshmen must be able to 
recite the names of all the stations 
between Decatur and Atlanta. . 

“4. No freshmen can visit Atlanta 
except by permission of the Sopho- 
mores. 

“5. No freshman can walk on the 
grass or partake of nourishment with- 
out the permission of a Sophomore. 

Ҥ Freshmen must skip vigor- 
ously when crossing the colonade, at 
a rate not less than 40 mi. per hour 
and not more than 60 mi. per hour. 

“7, Only back doors may be used 
by freshmen and they must knock 
three times before entering. 

“8. Freshmen must address all 

(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) 


Fire Department 
Organized 


New Apparatus Demonstrated 
to the Students 


Hottentots need have no fear of 
mighty conflagrations, for Elizabeth 
Blalock, our fire chief for this year, 
“looks well unto the ways of her 
household.” “In time of peace, pre- 
pare for war” is her slogan—or rather 
learn how to get down to the lobby in 
the dark when there is no fire; so if 
any old bolshevist sticks a match to 
your dormitory on some gloomy, dis- 
mal night, you won’t have to cast your 
maidenly modesty to the four winds 
of the earth and slide down the banis- 
ters. We all know the value, as well 
as the necessity of fire drills; so we 
must stand by our chief in spite of the 
sneezes and stumped toes we shall 
most certainly fall heir to on these 
nocturnal parades. 

The demonstration given back of 
Main Building last Thursday after- 
noon was of special interest to the fire 
department and to the college com- 
munity as a whole. New apparatus 
was ably exhibited by men who came 
out from Atlanta to show us how to 
put out our fires in the latest, most 
approved fashion. Our fire depart- 
ment must be up-to-date, if it is to be 
a success. We cannot depend on the 
bucket brigade of yesterday. 

Fire captains were elected in each 
dormitory about a week ago in a rath- 
er dramatic manner. At the silent 
hour of midnight, the peace and rest 
of the weary students was interrupted 
by an unearthly noise. Clang! Clang!! 
Clang!!! Girls hopped out of bed, and 
‘kimonos and bed-room slippers were 
in demand. Shivering, fussing, gig- 
gling, jostling into one another, the 
girls gained the lobby at last with 
only a few bumped noses and 
seratched fingers. They were in- 
formed that a fire captain was to be 
elected, and that nominations were in 
order. Captains were elected for each 
dormitory by the vote of the inmates, 
and the girls trooped back to bed hop- 
ing that the new captain wouldn't give 
fire drills at such inconvenient times. 

Fire Department. 
Chief, Elizabeth Blalock; Captains, 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


#|Che Agonistic 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924 


Annual Sophomore Week Held 
at Agnes Scott 


Virginia Girls 
Organize Club 


Officers Elected and Interesting 
Plans Made 


The first meeting of the Virginia 
Club was held Friday evening, Sep- 
tember the nineteenth in room num- 
ber one, on the fourth floor of main 
building. 

Its primary object was social, and 
the decorations and amusements for 
the occasion were unusual, all repre- 
senting Virginia in some way. The 
guests were met at the door by Mr. 
and Mrs, Patrick Henry, and entered 
to find the floor spread with confetti 
which marked out the boundaries of 
their state. Supper tables were placed 
inside the state in the same position 
as towns, and each girl found herself 
once more back home. Patrick Henry 
delivered a speech, quite as eloquent 
as the one of yore, during the course 
of the dinner which consisted of true 
Virginia products: Smithfield ham, 
and hot waffles. At the conclusion 
of this dinner, all the guests danced 
the renowned Virginia Reel to the 
tune of “Turkey in the Straw.” The 
evening ended with everyone singing 
“Carry Me Back te Old Virginia.” 

Even here at this social function, 
however, business crept in. Officers 
for the coming year were elected. 
They are, Pocahontas Wight, presi- 
dent, and Evelyn Sprinkle, secretary. | 
Besides this, a decision was made to 
write to the high schools in Virginia 
and in this way interest Virginia girls 
in Agnes Scott, For,this purpose the 
members of this club are planning to 
send out a pamphlet entitled, “Why 
Virginia Girls Come to Agnes Scott.” 
This pamphlet is to be divided into 
four parts. The first tells something 
of how much has been done by Vir- 
ginians in founding Agnes Scott Col- 
lege. Mrs. Gaines is from Virginia; 
Dr. Gaines obtained more than one- 
half of his earliest teachers from this 
state, among them the late Dr. Ar- 
mistead, Miss Hopkins, Miss Alex- 
ander and Miss McKinney. Next, the 
pamphlet wishes to tell what Virginia 
girls have done, and sets forth these 
facts: Out of the last five student 
government presidents, Virginia was 
the only state to have two, and the 
same thing is true of the Y. W. C. A.; 
out of six debates which have been 
won by Agnes Scott, Virginia girls 
were on four of the teams. Third, the 
booklet gives the record of the col- 
lege, and lastly, it explains the un- 
usual attractions that Agnes Scott has 
to offer to new students. This plan 
has been heartily endorsed by Dr. Me- 
Cain, who spoke of it last Tuesday 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 


Miss MacDougall Is 
Highly Honored 


British Company to Publish 
Thesis 


The following is a very modest ac- 
count of Miss MacDougall’s wonder- 
ful discovery while doing research 
work in Embryology. It is of so much 
value to the scientific world that an 
English publisher has asked that it 
be given a place in the “Quarterly” 
Journal of Microscopical Science. 
This is one of the leading biological 
publications and has a wide circulation 
both abroad and in this country. Ag- 
nes Seott should, and does, greatly 
feel the honor that has come to Miss 
MacDougall and to the college in hav- 
ing her as one of our faculty mem- 
bers—especially as she has refused 
some very flattering offers in order 
to come back to Agnes Scott. 

“Miss MacDougall, head of the de- 
parment of biology, who has been do- 
ing research for the past two years, 

( Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Stephen Leacock 
Popular Speaker 


Lecture on “Frenzied Fiction” 
Beth Amusing and Uplifting 


With the coming of Mr. Stephen 
Leacock to Agnes Scott, the lecture 
association opened its annual program 
by bringing to the college communi- 
ty the lecturer who, we feel safe in 
asserting, has won his place as the 
most popular of all the many diver- 
gent types of speakers whom it has 
been our privilege to hear. 

To those of us who had read any of 
Mr. Leacock's works, his appearance 
was doubly interesting, for there is 
always a sense of achievement in 
actually meeting the person whose ac- 
quaintance we have already made 
through some expression of that per- 
sonality in a literary way. It was 
this feeling on the part of his audi- 
ence of pre-acquaintance with Mr. 
Frank Swinnerton which heralded his 
coming last year—and which led us, 
most of us at least, to the very de- 
lightful surprise of finding out that 
the man as he is and as we had 
imagined him are essentially different. 
If Mr. Swinnerton could be so entire- 
ly unlike his books, might not the 
same be true of Mr. Leacock? We 
hoped that it might not be, but still 
there was the possibility of a similar 
contrast—therefore did we await the 
coming of Mr. Leacock with a natural 
desire to hear him, augmented we 
must admit by an unusual degree of 
human curiosity and speculation as 
to what he might prove to be. 

The very subject of his lecture 
“Frenzied Fiction”, ought to have been 
proof enough of Mr. Leacock’s ability 
to speak just as he writes—but still 
there remained the apprehension that 
he could not be as brimming ove. 
with human when speaking as when 

(Continued on Page 2, Column 3) 


Freshmen Entertain 
College Community 
With Stunts 


Freshmen Reveal Dramatic 
Ability 


After time honored custom, a week 
was given to the Sophomores to teach 
the Freshmen humility, and generally 
bring them up in the way they ought 
to go. 

From September 18 to 20, this an- 
cient custom was carried out. 

The Freshmen in Main entertained 
the College Community Thursday 
night with a stunt, “The Lighthouse 
Tragedy”, under the management of 
stage dirctor Emily Kingsbury. As 
the title of the stunt suggests, it was 
indeed a tragic performance, acted 
out in pantomine. There were all the 


elements needéd for a tragedy, a, 


heroine, a hero, and a villain. It is 
with great joy that the spectators 
witnessed the death of the villain, 
struck down in hi sevil doing at the 
(hands of the hero, and the beautiful 


ends. 

The characters were: 

Light house Keeper, Elizabeth Cole. 

Hero, Bill Keith. 

Heroine, Louise Sydnor. 

Villain, Jack Anderson. 

Doctor, 

Nurse, Louise Therfeesee. 

Friday night, by the order of the 
Sophomores, was set aside for a stunt 
to be given by the Freshmen for the 
entertainment of the Sophomores, Nell 
Hillhouse being given charge. 

While the players were pasting on 
goatees and practicing deep bass 
voices, which are commonly believed 
to be masculine, the Hardboiled Quar- 
‘tette composed of Jesse Hoffman, 
Miriam Anderson, Grace McLauren, 
and Mabel Robeson playing the gui- 
tar, forcefully gave vent to their 
feelings by singing “The Freshman 
Blues,” written by Mabel Robeson, a 

( Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Va scene with which the tragedy 


No. 2 


Faculty Announce Scholastic 


College Observes 


Miss Hearon Speaks on Menaces 
to Constitution 


As the United States has set aside 

September 13-20 for observance of 
“Constitution Week"', the Chapel pe- 
riod Thursday was given over to a 
discussion of our Constitution by 
Miss Hearon, head of the History De- 
partment. 
\ There are three dangerous attitudes 
koward the Constitution, Miss Hearon 
said, which are prevalent today. One 
attitude is that the Constitution is 
no longer needed because it hinders 
our development. Those advocating 
the discard of the Constitution seek to 
substantiate their arguments by 
pointing to the fact that England is 
not hampered by a written constitu- 
tion, and that the will of the English 
people can manifest itself without 
restriction. But they forget that 
England is small, fairly homogenious 
and old enough to have established 
customs and traditions which guide 
her. In fact, this unwritten body of 
traditions causes England to make 
slower changes, as a rule, than any 
country which is bound by a written 
Constitution. The United States, 
moreover, extends over a large area, 
and is a young country, made up of 
a diversity of people, whose tradi- 
tions have not become so firmly fixed 
as those in England. As conditions 
are different in the two countries, 
the same institutions are not practical 
for both, 

Another attitude is that the Consti- 
tution is an iniquitous document, 
written for a small group, and that 
the government under it is in the in- 
terests of the few. The “Reds” who 
hold this opinion would not only abol- 
ish our Constitution but overthrow 
our government as well. Their me- 
nace is a recognized one, and is not 
as great as that of the “Conserva- 
tives”. 

They regard the Constitution as an 
object of reverence, which should be 
altered under no conditions. They do 
not seem to realize that lack of 
change will mean ossification. “Con- 
servatism,” according to  Profes- 
sor Cheyney, “with a curious inver- 
sion of its intention, brings about the 
destruction of the group of fixed in- 
stitutions it wishes to preserve. It has 
only been the amendment and the 
stretching of the Constitution that 
have enabled us to survive politically 
under it. Elasticity, adoptiveness, 
capacity to conform to change, are 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) 


“Grandmothers” To 
Entertain Freshmen 


Be Given in Gym 
Tonight 


Party Will 


Freshmen, attention! A good time 
is in store for you this Saturday night 
at eight o’clock. Your grandmothers, 
attired as becomes their elderly dig- 
nity, are going to take you to a most 
delightful party in the gym. You are 
to wear the clothes you wore when 
you were very little girls, with socks, 
hair-ribbons, and short dresses, or, if 
you prefer, you may go as little boys. 
There will be interesting games for 
you to play, and stories told that will 
delight the heart of every child pres- 
ent. There will also be refreshments 
appropriate for your youthful age. 

The Sophomores will tell you what 
a fine time they had last year. Mrs. 
Sydenstricker was there to tell them 
charming stories, and after playing 
many amusing games, they danced un- 
til 9:30, when their grandmothers 
rushed them home to bed, as this was 
{a late hour for the little folks. 


Constitution Week| 


Honors for Year 1923-24 


Nineteen Students Win Dis- 
tinction 


The feeling of excitement was al- 
most as great in Chapel Friday morn- 
ing as it is when those making Gam- 
ma Tau are announced or when the 
Seniors are invested. The occasion 
was the making public of the names 
of those girls whose scholastic record 
last year was excellent. As the mem- 
bers of the faculty wore their acade- 
wmic robes and sat upon the stage 
an impressiveness was lent to the 
Chapel which it has only on special 
occasions. 

Dr. McCain explained that it had 
been decided to announce each year 
the names of those students who had 
done exceptionally well in their stud- 
ies for the year. The names of the 
Seniors are made known at Com- 
mencement, and those of the under- 
classmen in the fall following. In 
times past, students have been ad- 
mitted to Gamma Tau who have 
maintained a high average through- 
out their four years, and met other 
requirements. But there have always 
been students who on account of 
maladjustments during their first 
year, sickness, or some other reason, 
have failed to reach the same stan- 
dard in some year that they hold to 
during other years. It was desired 
that some recognition be made of 
these students, who certainly deserve 
eredit. 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) 


Blackfriars Begin 
Year’s Work 


“Midsummer-Night’s Dream” to 
Be Given This Fall 


Blackfriars has started its year’s: 
work with its accustomed pep. Al- 
ready committees have been appointed 
for the year; and plans for the fall 
plays have been nearly perfected. The 
first meeting of the organization was 
held on Friday, September 19th, in 
Demosthenean Hall. The president, 
Miss Mary Ben Wright, thanked the 
members of the club for the honor 
they had bestowed upon her, and “took 
the oath of office” by promising to up- 
hold the purpose of the club. She 
then appointed certain committees, 
and announced that at the next meet- 
ing, Friday, October 3rd, Miss Frances 
Amis, ex-president of Blackfriars, 
would address the club. The treas- 
urer’s report was unusually encourag- 
ing, showing a balance in the bank 
of about one hundred and fifty dollars. 
It is interesting to note in this connec- 
tion that last fall Blackfriars began 
the year with a debt of twenty dollars. 


Miss Frances K. Gooch, director of 
Blackfriars, gave an interesting talk 
on the presentation of “Midsummer- 
Night’s Dream” by the Shakesperean 
players at Stratford-on-Avon. Miss 
Gooch had the good fortune to see this 
play while visiting England this sum- 
mer. She said that the interpreta- 
tions of characters were quite similar 
to those given by our girls last spring, 
with a few notable exceptions. Among 
the exceptions was Puck, who was 
dressed in green from head to foot, 
and presented in a mean, rather than 
mischievous, light. 

Miss Gooch’s talk led to a discus- 
sion of what should be done with 
“Midsummer-Night’s Dream” as 
worked up by Blackfriars for the com- 
mencement play last spring, 1924, and 
the spring before, 1923. Both times | 
rain prevented the performance of the 
play. It was unanimously decided 
that, in justice to the caste, the play 
should be presented at some time dur- 
ing this year; and that the presenta- 
tion of such a drama as “Midsummer- 
Night’s Dream” in the fall would give 
a fine boost to Blackfriars’ 1924-’25 


(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) 


yee > A AGONISTI 


New Student Elections 


Eunice Kell and Larsen Mattox 
Elected 


Che Agonistic 


Saturday, September 20, Eunice 
Kell was elected third vice-president 
of student government, and Larsen 
Mattox assistant editor of the Sil- 
houette. This was the second time 
that Eunice had been elected to the 
office, for, just after the first selec- 
tion, it was discovered that the stu- 
dents had acted by the rules of an 


Subscription Price, $1.75 per year in advance. 
Single Copies, 5 cents. 


Published weekly. Owned and published by the Students of 
Agnes Scott College. 


Entered as Second Class Matter. 


| older constitution and must vote 
again. Everyone was glad when 
STAFF OF AGONISTIC. Eunice was again chosen. She is also 


secretary and treasurer of the Ath- 
letic Association, an office to which 
she was elected last March. We hope 
that she will not be as severe on the 
Freshmen of Main as upon the finan- 
ces of the Association. 

Larsen Mattox will be a capable as- 
sistant editor of the Silhouette, we 
feel sure. Everybody is familiar with 
her delightful tales in the Aurora— 
stories which won for her last year 
membership in B. O. Z., that select 
circle of writers. We all pledge our 
hearty support to these girls and wish 
them success during the year. 


Dorothy Keith 
Louisa Duls 
Elizabeth Henderson 
Emily Jones 
Ellen Fain 
Clarkie Davis 
Emily Spivey 
Eugenia Thompson 
Mary Palmer Caldwell 
Carolyn Smith 
Sarah Smith 
Caroline WeC ay. coy cans csedietiarwra tires 
Margaret Edmondson 
Clyde Passmore 
Mary Hearth 


SE sae RS SMSC RAS Hee aE RN PESOS Exchange Editor 
poe eee ee PE es ee Joke Editor 
SR es oe, Oe RS: SEES Society Editor 
Y. W. C. A. Editor 
Day Student Editor 
Business Manager 
Assistant Business Manager 
Associate Business Manager 
Associate Business Manager 
Circulation Manager 
Assistant Circulation Manager 


PROFESSOR HEATH TO TEACH 
“LOCAL FLORA” 


Mr. Heath Is Frem the “Northwest- 
ern University.” 


"Among the interesting things that 
have happened in the Biology Depart- 
ment this year is the addition of a 
new course—a course in Local Flora. 
Professor E. S. Heath, an authority 
on the flora of this region, is going 
to teach the course, which will be of- 
fered the second semester. 

Prof. Heath taught last year at the 
Northwestern University. This winter 
he is writing a monograph on the 
flora of Stone Mountain. This course 
will make a very vital addition to the 
Biology Department and it is expected 
that many students will take advan- 
tage of it. 


REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


Elizabeth Henderson, ’27 Edith Richards, ’27 
Clyde Passmore, ’25 Frances Buchanan, ’27 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 Margaret Terry, ’26 
Elizabeth Griffin, ’25 Mabel Robeson, ’28 
Miriam Preston, ’27 Julia Pope, ’25 

Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 


EBDITORLAL 


STEPHEN LEACOCK POPULAR 
- SPEAKER 


COLLEGIATE CLAY (Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


writing—it was not natural. But 
when Mr. Leacock walked out on the 


C 


ANNUAL SOPHOMORE WEEK 


HELD AT AGNES SCOTT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


upperclassmen as “Miss” and must 
kneel when meeting a teacher, ex- 
cept in classes. 

“9. Freshmen must stand with 
heads bowed when an upperclassman 
enters the room, especially the din- 
ing rooms. 

“10. Freshmen must appear on 
the campus attired in light dresses, 
on backwards; said dress to be covered 
with middy blouse, on backwards. Col- 
lar of said middy blouse must be cov- 


ered with rubber bib. The cranium | 


of each freshman must be adorned 
with seven plaits down the middle 
of the forehead and must be covered 
with a baby cap. Dark hose striped 
with chalk, rubbers, name placards 
suspended by green ribbon will com- 
plete the costume. 

“11. Freshmen are subject to the 
slightest wish of any sophomore.” 

Thursday morning found all fresh- 
men getting out of bed before day- 
light in order to get their costumes 
adequately adjusted. At the break- 
fast table they entertained with 
verse and song, some of them even 
reluctantly admitting that they were 
“s_j-m-p-l-e m-i-n-d-e-d!” Though the 
sophomores exercised much mental 
exertion in keeping the freshmen oc- 
cupied, they certainly did not exert 
themselves physically; for every 
morning their room was swept for 
them, their beds made up, their fur- 
niture polished by the unfortunate 
lowerclassmen. 

On Thursday night the freshmen 
of Main Building entertained the com- 
munity with a delightful little stunt, 
“The Lighthouse.” Inman and White- 
House freshmen performed on Friday 
night. 

The climax came on Friday night. 
At eleven o'clock, when all good 
freshmen were sound asleep mysteri- 
ous shrouds were stealing silently 
across the campus, creeping up stair- 


ways, scattering alarm and fear every- | 


where. “The Sophomore Raid!” was 
the general exclamation. The terror 
of the freshmen was indeed amusing. 
Some hung up in closets in their 
laundry bags, others rolled into dark 
corners under the bed—anything to 
escape the dreaded hand of the soph- 


, come. 


A few years ago the authorities of Dartmouth College made 
a careful survey of the grades received by its students during the 
preceding ten years. As a result of that survey, Dartmouth now 
expects twenty-five per cent of its students to receive a grade of 
A or B, fifty per cent to receive a grade of C, and twenty-five 
per cent to receive a grade of D or E. 

What do these figures mean? Well you can look at them 
with joy or sorrow, just as you wish. If you are an optimist, you 
will probably say, “Fine! Seventy-five per cent of the students 
do acceptable work or better.” But if you are a pessimist, you 
will undoubtedly say, “Shades of Socrates! Seventy-five per cent 
of the students do mediocre work or worse.” 


So far as the intellectual standards and capacities of the 
undergraduates are concerned I am a pessimist. Seventy-five per 
cent of them do mediocre work or worse. At Dartmouth College 
one quarter of the undergraduates do work that is worse than C, 
and half of them do work that is no better. 


Remember, please, that in using Dartmouth as an example, 
I am not using a college with an inferior student body. Dart- 
mouth picks its students with considerable care, and, everything 
considered, there are probably not half a dozen colleges in the 
country that have better material from which to pick. Dartmouth 
certainly belongs to the upper flight of colleges, and while its 
demands upon its students are not very great, they are excessive 
in comparison with the demands made by the vast majority of 
American colleges. 

In other words, the students at Dartmouth College and the 
standards of Dartmouth College are very superior to the stand- 
ards and students of most of our colleges; yet, although the 
standards of Dartmouth are not at all severe, fifty per cent of its 
students do mediocre work and twenty-five per cent do work 
that is worse than mediocre. You can draw your own conclusions 
about the work that is being done in the lesser colleges. 

The result is, of course, that the intellectual standards of our 
undergraduates are low—and they are low for the good and simple 
reason that not even half of the undergraduates have minds 
capable of understanding or reaching standards that are high. 
Granted that most of the teaching is bad, granted that some 
intelligent undergraduates are indolent, the fact still remains 
that most of the undergraduates have not the mental capacity 
ever to attain intellectual superiority—Percy Marks, The Edu- 
cational Number of the Bookman, September, 1924. 


stage, his eyes twinkling, his whole 
being radiating geniality—our mis- 
givings promptly subsided—anyone 
with a smile like that could not help 
being, so we “settled ourselves” for 
an hour’s enjoyment, and were im- 
mediately plunged into such a de- 
lightful hour as few of us will soon 
forget. 

Sketching rather rapidly and wholly 
without undue praise to himself his 
early dramatic successes in such roles 
as “the groan within,” “the crash 
without”, Mr. Leacock carried us to 
his most eventful dramatic appear- 
ance in which he, being the noblest 
piece of ice afloat (in a scene from 
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”) was duly re- 
warded for his diligence in the little 
things and achieved promotion to the 
stellar role—that of the hound—a 
role which has made famous not only 
Mr. Leacock but many another actor. 
What an uplifting moral effect such 
a life of struggle has upon the audi- 
ence! And therein lies one of his 
charms—not only is he amusing, but 
uplifting as well—he himself says so. 

After proving his ability as an 
influential factor in the lives of his 
hearers, Mr. Leacock took up the 
various forms of modern fiction—in- 
eluencing profoundly our views on 
the subject. At the close of his lec- 
ture, we were all preparing to write— 
what? oh, anything—something of 
the buckets-of-blood variety, with 
crime, crime, crime penetrating it, 
without the usual “woman in the 
case”, and with strict devotion to the 
new school of verbs, enveloping such 
choice extracts as “She iced”, “he 
‘groused” and others—and about all 
things else adhering closely to all 
the peculiarities of Ibsen as a dra- 
matist. Only by doing this can we 
hope to become great authors. With 
a closing injunction to us not to be 
content to be chunks of ice, but to 
be satisfied only with being the 
hounds of this world, and an exhorta- 
tion to cling to all that is modern and 
worthless in this age of “Frenzied 
Fiction”, Mr. Leacock left us ponder- 
ing over these weighty problems of 
our time, and thoroughly enjoying 
this meditation. 


omore. Some were almost unruly and 
these paid the penalty the next night 
at Rat Court, which was witnessed by 
all upperclassmen and the faculty. 
Rat Court was in charge of the soph- 
omore committee, composed of Ellen 
Douglas Leburn, Maurine Bledsoe, 
Mae Eskine Erwin, Elizabeth Norfleet, 
Evelyn Powell, Elizabeth Lilly, Mary 
Weems, Miriam Preston, Helen Lewis, 
Elizabeth Clarke, Gladys Patz. 


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Do you feel blue on Sunday morn- 
ing, freshie, and don’t know where to 
go? Well, what about trying Sunday 
school, so you will feel at home! The 
Y. W. hones to have a good Sunday 


‘school, so those who are interested and 


want to keep up the old home habits, 
‘nere are to be two classes, 
one for the freshmen and one for the 
old girls. This isn’t discrimination 
against the freshmen—dear me, no; 
the old girls are just afraid their 
knowledge will receive a shock when 
placed beside freshmen’s. Sunday 
school is to be right after breakfast, 
so it will be easy to go there and then 
get drese2d in time for church. 
There are also new plans for Eve- 
ning Watch. The meetings are to be 
turned into discussion groups led by 
girls who have made a special study 
of the question. In this way we hope 
Evening Watch will be a more per- 
sonal thing to the girls. At the first 
meeting there is to be a discussion of 
what topic we shall take up. Then 
we hope to launch out on our discus- 


sions. We hope this will prove very 
interesting to everyone. At least give 
it a trial! 


“WEEK-ENDERS” AT PINE 
LODGE 


Pine Lodge was this past week- 
end again packed to its capacity with 
jolly campers. These campers, how- 
ever, unlike the ones who have in- 
habited the lodge so far this year, 
had no Y. W. C. A. programs or 
Silhouettes to plan, but were merely 
out for a good time. Having been 
at school one whole week, they 
thought they needed to get away 
from work and enjoy the freedoms 
of nature, so, of course, they decided 
to spend the week-end at Pine Lodge. 
It was a grand and glorious day—not 
rainy or cold, for a wonder, so much 
fun was had swimming in the pond 
and hiking up Stone Mountain. Late 
in the evening the girls gathered to- 
gether and sang songs until it was 
time to climb into bed—or rather tc 
pull out the mattresses. The party 
chaperoned by “the new gymn teach- 
er,” whom some of us have finally 
learned to call Miss Sinclair, was com- 
posed of: E. Albright, E. Jacobson, 
E. Lilly, E. Norfleet, M. D. Brown, 
N. Lingle, E. Powell, M. M. Lybrook, 
B Berry, H. Lewis, M. Crenshaw, 
E. D. Leyburn, J. Bridgeman. 


The good spirit which existed 
among the freshman class cannot be 
overlooked. They were excellent 
sports and it is felt that they will 
make splendid sophomores for next 
year, 


For your convenience we have just purchased the Wil- 
son Drug Co., located at 321 East College Avenue. We 
expect to “carry on” the same high service and give 
the same excellent values as we have always done in 
our main store on the square. 


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All of the old girls will be glad 
to know that Mrs. Gaines is now 
living on Candler Street, 
The Agnes Scott girls have always 


Decatur, 


loved Mrs. Gaines and they missed 
her very much last year when she was 
living in Atlanta. We are so glad 
to have her near us again and to 
have the opportunity of seeing her 


more often. 


Freshman to Nan Lingle: “You know 
I have been looking everywhere for 
my senior sister and I haven’t found 


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Far and away the best values in winter coats we’ve 


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Faultlessly tailored! 


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The furs are dyed squirrel, natural squirrel, beaver, 
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You’d expect to find coats like these priced from $10 
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Alumnae News 


Especial interest is always felt in 
our “newest” alumnae, and this year 
it is pleasing to note how many of 
the graduates of last term are en- 
geged in the teaching profession. 
Some, however, have found work else- 
where, and have entered into fields of 
usefulness along many lines. It al- 
ways gives us pleasure to recognize in 
our paper the attainment of any mem- 
ber of the Agnes Scott Alumnae As- 
sociation, and we would appreciate the 
co-operation of that association by 
giving us any information concerning 
A. S. C. graduates. 


Miss Victoria Howie is professor of 


‘Latin at Union, South Carolina. 


Miss Janice Brown is teaching Latin 
and History this year at Honea Path, 
South Carolina. 


Miss Mary Greene holds the chair 
of English at Honea Path, South 
Carolina. 


Miss Polly Stone, who has an im- 
portant position with the Atlanta 
Chamber of Commerce, was the guest 
of Miss Francis Amis last week-end. 

Miss Carrie Scandrett is engaged in 
social service work in Atlanta, Geor- 
gia. 

Misses Elizabeth Henry and Beulah 
Davidson hold responsible positions in 
the high school at Tate, Georgia. 

Friends of Miss Kate Higgs will re- 
gret to learn of her serious illness 
in the Alleghany Heights Hospital, 
Davis, West Virginia. 


Liza, an old negro mammy, spent 
a summer in the mountains and was 
awed by the grandeur and height of 
the mountains. She wrote Susie, a 
friend of hers, about how wonderful 
they were, but Susie did not answer. 
On her return home, Liza upbraided 
her and Susie’s explanation was, “I 
don’t write to dem dat lives in de 


| mountains. I write to dem dat lives 


in de valley ’eause de Lord sez, ‘Low 
is the way’.” 


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| Dearest Giddy: 


I was too homesick last week even 
| to write to you, and then, besides, 
ly was “financially embarrassed”—as 
Daddy used to say. I bought cute 
little white curtains for my windows 
and paid for a front chapel seat and 
even contributed to helping Agnes 
Seott keep a maid on our hall. That 
like tho, 


The only consolation is 


was just Freshman, 
it? 


that there are a hundred and fifty 


a 


wasn’t 


more who are just as broke and green 
as I am. 


There is one new girl here whose 
acquaintance I want to cultivate. Her 
I don’t 
know her yet but the reason I know 
her name is because she gets a spe- 
cial e-v-e-r-y day. Wouldn’t that be 
fun? 


name is Margaret Dyer. 


And do you know that Jo Huntley 
got a ’phone call (they don’t ever say 
telephone down here) the other day 
and when she got her number the man 
at the other end of the line asked if 
Jo 
said, “a cell??” and then the man 
said, “Well, this is the DeKalb 
County Jail”. . I forgot to tell 


she wanted to apply for a cell. 


BLACKFRIARS BEGIN 
WORK 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


YEAR’S 


v 


Blackfriars will 
present “Midsummer-Night’s Dream” 
this fall. As practically all of last 
spring’s caste is still available, the 
play can probably be put on in about 


career. Therefore, 


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you that Jo is a Freshman, too, but 
I guess you already know that. 


Oh yes! I must tell you something 
else funny. Last Saturday night 
when the Sophomores had “rat” 


count—(I think that’s what they call 
it)—Miss MacDougall and Miss White 
brought two visitors with them. They 
were all dressed up and had heavy 
veils over Everybody 
but the 
Sophs were the first to find out—and 
when they did, they escorted them 
What a shame 
Jo and “Chugga” didn’t get to see 
Judge Leyburn and his jurors 
nouncing sentence on the trembling 


their ‘faces. 


wondered who they were 


to the swimming pool. 
pro- 


victims. 


The lights are winking right now 
and that means I have only fifteen 
minutes to get to bed. You know 
down here the seniors are the only 
ones who can use lights after ten 
o’clock. Won’t I be glad when I get 
to be one. 


Goodnight! 
AGGIE. 


P, S—Miss Preston told us in Eng- 
lish last Friday to take our “Saturday: 
Night Bath” on Monday. I wonder 


what she meant. A. 


three weeks, but an announcement of 
a definite date will be made later. 

Another question coming before the 
meeting was whether or not Black- 
friars should attempt to present a 
play at the commencement of 1925. 
In view of the fact that the com- 
mencement play has been rained out 
more than half the time since the cus- 
tom of having it was begun, the pros- 
pect seems dismal, Most of the Black- 
friars feel, however, that the’ spring 
play is an indispensable asset to the 
graduating exercises, and have hopes 
of giving the play this spring in the 
auditorium of the new gymnasium 
building, in case of unfavorable at- 
mospheric conditions. 


FIRE DEPARTMENT ORGANIZED 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


Margaret Hyatt, Main Hall; Nan Lin- 
gle, Rebekah Scott Hall; Jacqueline 
Ralston, Inman Hall; Gertrude Green, 
Gaines Cottage; Miriam Anderson, 
Lupton; Ruth Johnson, White House. 


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For Every Phase of College Life 


S outfitters of college clothes, Frohsin’s have earned the 
approval and patronage of the teachers and students of 


They tell us that they enjoy that assurance of fashion, the 
fitness to the needs of college life, the dependable quality and 
value that attend every purchase at our shop—as well as 
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Athletic News DAY STUDENT 


Athletic Rally Held Tuesday Night. 


“We are the girls from Agnes 
Scott, heigh oh, heigh oh, heigh oh, 
heigh oh.” With this refrain ringing 
in the air, the girls from Agnes Scott 
rushed out on the hockey field and 
danced around the blazing bon-fire. 
The traditional athletic Rally 
taking place. 


was 


NEWS 


Back again at our favorite tricks 
of dashing from the Decatur car be- 
fore Ella finishes pealing the eight 
o’clock bell! But the eight o'clock 
isn’t the only kind of belle that ap- 
pears in this famous d. s. brigade. 
Some of these newly acquired Hotten- 
tots belonging to the Freshman class 


Emily Spivey, the president of the{have come through the ordeals of So- 


Athletic Association, welcomed ‘the 
girls to the Rally and then intro- 


duced the members of the Board, who 
told of their sports. There is tennis, 
hockey, basketball, baseball and 
track for any who wish to play. 
Then, if you don’t care for any of 
these, but still like a little recreation, 
Pine Lodge is “nuf said.” Besides 
these departments there is the orches- 
tra for those who are musically in- 
clined. For those who may lack spir- 
it or sometimes become a little blue, 
the “sings” on Tuesday nights will 
surely cheer you up—or perhaps, if 
you have lost something, the Athletic 
Association can help you out again. 
For you see the last but not least 
department is the Lost and Found 
Store. 

Finally, as the fire was dying down 
and after the girls had been intro- 
duced to the managers and_ their 
sports, with true Agnes Scott spirit 
and enthusiasm all joined in singing 
the Alma Mater. 


COLLEGE OBSERVES CONSTITU- 


TION WEEK 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


the requisites for survival.” 

Respect is due to the Constitution, 
cne of the greatest documents of his- 
tory, which wes written by a very 
able body of men who had learning, 
training and experience. It should be 
remembered that many conipromises 
had to be inade before its completion. 
But when completed, it provided for 
a government adequate to the con- 
ditions of that time. It has endured 
since then on account of its adapta- 
bility to changing conditions, because 
it has shown itself capable of chang- 
ing with time. Because it can de- 
velop, it has been able to live. We 
¢an insure its preservation and the 
continuaton of its institutions by fur- 
ther wise development of it, and not 
by striving to make it immutable. It 
will, if it continues to fit changing 
conditions, become a permanent docu- 
ment. 


FACULTY ANNOUNCE SCHOLAS- 


TIC HONORS FOR YEAR 1923-24 
_ (Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


The Juniors of last year whose 
year’s scholastic attainment ap- 
proached excellent are: Elizabeth 
Cheatham, Sarah Fullbright, Martha 
Jackson, Julia Pope, and Marjery 
Speake. The Sophomores are: Isa- 
belle Clarke, Juanita Greer, Olive 
Hall, Margaret Whitlington, Louisa 
Duls, Catharine Graeber, Nan Lingle, 
and Grace Augusta Ogden. 

Before announcing the names of 
the six freshmen, Dr. McCain stated 
that it is an unusual thing for stu- 
dents to do as well their freshman 
year as they do later. Frances Buch- 
anan, Susan Clayton, Mary Floyd Da- 
vis, Miriam Preston, Roberta Thomas, 
and Grace Zachary, however, have 
established a record which we hope 
they will maintain. 


“Is there a con- 
vegetable and 


Miss MacDougall: 
nection between the 
animal kingdom?” 

Sophisticated Agnes Scotter: 
Brunswick stew.” 


“Yes, 


Mary: “What is dramatic ability?” 

Sally: “Dramatic ability—why, its 
a pupil’s gift of looking sorry when 
he learns there will be a cut the next 
lesson.” 


Co: “I like your cigarette holder.” 
Ed: “But I haven't any cigarette.” 
Co: “Don't be so dumb!” 


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phomore week unscathed and are as 
fresh as a morn in May. New Hot- 
tentots, we welcome you—and we 
hope we can help make you delight in 
your college days. We promise not 
to offer you a bargain price for the 
radiator in our room, but if you want 
a mail box, it really is the proper 
thing to do to give Lucile Phippen 
five cents in exchange for a number 
and combination. 

It certainly is wonderful to have 
so many of our members on the 
Honor Roll. Riding so many street 
cars must be a great stimulus, but 
anyway here are those who are in 
our Hall of Fame: 

Sarah Fullbright, Martha Jackson, 
Elizabeth Cheatham (she has desert- 
ed our ranks now but we still claim 
her), Isabel Clarke, Juanita Greer, 
Margaret Whittington, Susan Clayton 
and Grace Zachry. With so many 
scintillating intellects floating around 
us, there’s no telling what we won’t 
do! 

The Day Students have as their 
efficient president Isabel Clarke, so 
we know this year will have a laurel 
of suecess. Marianne Strouss repre- 
sents us in College Council, Lucile 
Phippen is a member of Lower House. 
Be prepared to let Juanita Greer 
handle all our finances, and very soon 
she will be calling for budgets. 

Watch out for Alice Greenlea! She 
is a dangerous character, also a cut- 
ting one, to judge by the huge shears 
she carries around. Those rarities 
with long hair will have to be good 
debaters to keep from having Alice 
forcibly separate us from what we 
have kept so far—let’s hold our own! 

Also—keep November 8th in mind. 
You'll hear about this anon. 


FRESHMEN ELECT CHAIRMAN 


It has always been the custom at 
Agnes Scott College for the Sopho- 
mores to pit their wit against the 
Freshmen. To the one who puts or 
the best stunt a bronze cat is donated, 
vas a signal recognition of their prow- 
ess. 

On Monday night, September 18, 
after prayers, the Freshmen met in 
the Propeleyan room to elect a chair- 
man. Ted Wallace, Nell Hillhouse, 
Jack Anderson, and Ada Knight were 
nominated. These girls were asked 
to leave ‘the room, while enthusiastic 
friends extolled their good qualities. 

After two ballots, Jack Anderson 
was declared elected. The Freshmen 
greeted their returning heroine with 
a cheer, and cries of “Speech! 
Speech!” resounded from all sides. 
Jack Anderson responded with a plea 
for help and ideas from the Freshmen 
and the meeting was adjourned. 


VIRGINIA GIRLS ORGANIZE 
CLUB 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


morning in chapel, saying that it was 
a fine opportunity for the college to 
come in contact with the kind of girls 
who are most wanted at Agnes Scott. 
Indeed, he has become so interested 
in it, he has agreed to put this pamph- 
let out at the expense of the college. 


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FRESHMEN ENTERTAIN COL- 
LEGE COMMUNITY WITH 
STUNTS 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


long suffering Freshman, 
The Freshman Blues 
(To tune of “it ain’t gonna rain no 
Mo”) 
; 1; 

The night was dark and dreary, 

The air crackled with cold, 

The Soph’mores came to see me, 
And they sho’ got me told. 

Chorus 

Pelanky, lanky, lanky 
Tweedle, deedle, doo, 

Did the Soph’mores come to see you, 
They came to see me too. 

2. 

I climbed beneath the bedstéad, 

I sang the laundry list, 

The Soph’mores had a great ol’ time, 
But for me it was not bliss. 

3. 

I washed my stockings nice and clean, 
I hung them on the line, 

The Soph’mores saw them hanging 

there, 

And came and took them down. 

4. 

I struggled with temptation, 

I played at rough football, 

I said I was simple minded, 

Which wasn’t true at all. 

5. 

But now its nearly over, 

’Tis done forever more, 

Till the Freshies come in next year, 
And then they'll catch it sho’! 
They encored with “There'll be a 

Hot Time, in the Old School, Tonight,” 

which prophecy, it may be added, was 

fully carried out. Followed: 
The Stunt 

Cast of characters: 

Nancy, Hilda Kalmon. 

Battling Bill, Katherine Kalmon. 

Johnny from Annapolis, Nell Hill- 
house. 

The artist, Irene Lawrence. 

Hezekiah Hayloft, Lila Porcher. 

The Shiek, Ruth Livermore. 

The Poet, Gilberta Knigth. 

The Cop, Ted Wallace. 

Nancy was beset by suitors, some 
who suited her but whom she did 
not suit, and vice-versa. At last won 
by the frat pin of a cop, whose num- 
ber, 74, happened to be the same as 
her grades at A. 8. C., she sank into 
his arms, leaving us to imagine the 
happy life to be led. 

The rest of the entertainment be- 
longed to the Sophomores, who called 
on various Freshmen for stunts, and 
publicly returned pictures, captured 
from enamoured Froshes. 

Thus ended the first part of the sec- 
ond night, when the Sophomores 
ruled the campus. 

—MABEL ROBESON. 


MISS MacDOUGALL RECEIVES 
HIGH HONOR 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


has just learned that her paper, ‘Cyto- 
logical Observations on Chlemydodent 
Ciliates,’ with descriptions of the Ma- 
turation Phenomena in Diploid and 
Tatraploid Forms of Chilodon Unci- 
natus, is to appear in the Quarterly 
Journal of Microscopic Science. 

“Prof. Goodrich, who is editor of 
this journal, while on a visit to this 
country last summer, saw the paper at 
Woods Hole, and, being interested in 
the tetraploid form, suggested that it 
be sent to the Q. J. M. S.” 


Heard in Chemistry Class. 

Mr. Holt: ‘What is found in salt- 
water besides the chloride of iodine 
we were just speaking of?” 

Virginia “Herrings, Sir.” 


We say SO, too, 


We are headquarters 
for Hanan’s fine 
footwear. See the 
new fall models. 


| Carlton’s 
| 36 Whitehall St. 


trim and dainty, and never have we shown so 
pleasing a variety. Priced from $6 to $13.50. 


“Tres Chic’ — 


—say women of our new fall shoes. 


And, 


for never have styles been so 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


A. Edwards: “Have you met the 
Kalman twins? They are awfully 
cute, but would you ever know that 
Hilda was 18 years old?” 

Lucy Winn: “No, I surely wouldn’t. 
Is Katherine 18, too?” 


Fresh: “What must I do with this 
letter? I found it in my box and it 
belongs to another girl. This is my 


box, ’cause I’ve already paid for it.” 


First Soph: 
garet fad 

Second Soph: “Yes, she sleeps be- 
hind me in Bible class.” 


“Do you know Mar- 


When the dignified procession 
marched forth into chapel Friday 
morning, bedecked in cap and gown, 


we caught several Freshmen search-| | 


ing for specified seats. We found 
later that they mistook this for the 
meeting of House and were vainly 
looking for the seats that they had 
purchased from a kind committee of 
girls. 


Logic Prof.: “Give me an example 
of a vicious circle,” 
Stude: “What you’re just going to 


put down beside my name.” 


Gilberta Knight (Freshie), hurry- 
ing from dinner: “Will you get re- 


stricted if you are late to biology || 


lab?” 


Good (reading poem in frenzied ex- 


citement): “My lady sleeps, sleeps, 
sleeps!!” 

Student: “For Pete’s sake, wake 
her up.” 


Only Too True. 
There are .wo weys of reducing the 
size of the student body? 
1. Gym. 
2. Exams. 
Both are very efficient. 


Which Front? 
Weary Tramp: “Lady, I’m an ex- 


soldier, Will you give me a sand- 
wich?” 

Mrs. Housewife: “Were you at the 
front?” 


Weary Tramp: “Yes, ma'am, but 
nobody answered the bell, so I came 
around to the back door.” 


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Waiter (presenting dish to George, 
Ella and Anne, who had sent back to 
the kitchen for refilling numerous 
times during the course of the meal): 
“Well, I hope this will do you ’till 
morning.” 


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Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1924 


No. 3 


SOPHOMORES WIN CAT 


Hoasc Announces 


Si 


Keesler, Mrs. Hazen Smith 


Cheatham, Hyatt, 
Manly, Speake, Walker 
are Chosen 


On Saturday morning, October 4, 
Hoase announced six new members 
from the Senior class. The girls chosen 
as worthy of membership in Hoasc 
‘from the class of 1925 were, Eliza- 
‘beth Cheatham, Margaret Hyatt, Mary 
Keesler, Martha Lin Manly, Margery 
Speake, and Ellen Walker. 

As the college hymn, “Ancient of 
Days” was played, the processional, 
composed of the seven members of 


_ Hoase, who were declared worthy of 


membership in the spring“of last year, 
Frances, Bitzer, Louise Buchanan, Isa- 


_ bel Ferguson, Dorothy Keith, Fran- 


ces Lincoln, Mary Anne McKinney 
_ and Emily Spivey; the’ three faculty 


Ny members of Hoas¢, Dr. McCain, Dr. 


Sweet and Mr. Holt, and our honorary 
_ faculty member, Miss McDougal, who 
has. only returned to Agnes Scott this 
year, with the alumnae members of 


| Hoase present, entered the chapel. 


Polly Stone, a member of: the class 
She 


was ‘founded.in 1916 by a small num- 
ber ‘of: the Senior class of that year. 
Hoase was founded in order that some 


_ formal recognition might be made of 


those girls who, throughout their four 


1 years of: college life; have worked 


most faithfully and most unselfishly 
for the good of their Alma Mater, 
The sis’ give, whoumove chosen. for 
membership this year, have through- 
out their college life taken an active 


- and interested part in different phases 


(Continued on Page 2, Column 5) 


Pi Alpha Phi Holds 
First Meeting 


Tryouts For Upperclassmen To 
Be Held October 15 


Pi Alpha Phi fired her opening gun 
Thursday, October 2, beginning the 
long debating war which is to end 


in a double victory for Agnes ‘Scott | 


against Randolph-Macon and Soph- 
ie Newcomb, next spring. But in 


order that we may win this struggle, } 


thorough preparations must be made; 

je arsenals must be stored full and 
"guarded; the cannon mustbe cleaned; 
the soldiers, and in particular our six 
commanding officers must be trained 
to perfection. 
Phi has dedicated herself during 1924- 
25. 

Pi Alpha Phi held its first meeting 
or the year in the Propylean Hali, 
October 2nd. An unusually large num- 
ber of the members were present. E1- 
Jen Walkef> the president, opened the 
meeting with a graceful speech, out- 
lining the aims and purposes of the) 
organization. The office of vice-presi- 
dent had to be refilled since Olive 
Hall, who had held it, did not return 
to school, 

Olivia Swann was unanimously 
elected to fill the place. 

As the first move toward replenish- 
ing our broken ranks in preparation 
for our first campaign the fall try- 
outs were announced for Monday, 
October 13. Only upper classmen may 
try at this time; but the freshmen 
will be given a chance later. 

Other plans were discussed, after 
which the club, turning from business 
to pleasure, gave itself over to a so- 
cial hour. Pi Alpha Phi has enthusi- 
astically opened the debating war— 
Let’s back her up! 


To this end Pi Alpha | 


1X New Members 


Talks in Chapel 


Mrs. Smith Talks On Life Work 
and Service 


The Agnes Scott community during 
the past week enjoyed a series of in- 
spirational talks by Mrs. Hazen 
Smith, Life Work Secretary for the 
Southern Presbyterian Church. Mrs. 
Smith has been visiting the various 
colleges and discussing with the stu- 
dents their special problems. As she 
is an Agnes Scott girl, she was glad 
to be here again, and gave us a little 
over a week of her valuable time. 
Mrs. Smith is better known to the 
faculty and to those students whose 
relatives were here when she was in 
school as “Ruth Slack, ‘Crip’ Slack’s 
sister.’’* 

Sincé she graduated’ from Agnes 
Scott in 1912, Mrs. Smith has spent 
several years in China engaged in 
welfare work. We learned much from 
her talks about’the aspects of Chinese 
life which are little known in America. 
‘To make us conversant with the 
ways of “the heathen Chinee” or the 
Christian one either, however, was not 
the main purpose of her speeches. 
She emphasized the importance of de- 
ciding on.a life work and of having 
an aim to guide our actions. Al- 
though she did not urge that we be- 
.come missionaries to foreign coun- 
tries, she did call to our attention the 
uedt we owe to our Maker and bring 
to our consideration the problem of 
paying it. After hearing her, we real- 
ized what a preparation we have for 
a life of service and the many oppor- 
tunities open to us of helping bring 
about a better state of things, if we 
are only willing to avail ourselves of 
them. Her chief arguments were 
against our allowing ourselves to drift 
along as the current takes us, without 
facing issues squarely, without con- 
sulting older people, without praying 
for guidance. There is a life work 
for each one of us, in the accomplish- 
ment of which we can do the most 
good and reach our fullest develop- 
ment. It is for us to seek for it and 
decide on it. 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 


B. O. Z. Meets With 
Mrs. Dieckmann 


| ‘Tryouts Must Be In By 
October 9 


On September 25, less fortunate 
girls gazed with enyy upon the chos- 
en few who were dressed up to go 
somewhere. These were the mem- 
bers of B. O. Z., all ready to go to 
Mrs. Dieckmann’s for their first 
meeting—of course, anyone who visits 
that cozy brick house has a good 
time as all old girls know—the fact 
that Polly Stone was a visitor added 
much gaiety and enjoyment to the 
gathering for Polly is a joy anywhere. 

Larsen Mattox’s story, “It Works 
Both Ways”, was the only one read. 
Good fellowship and Mrs. Dieck- 
mann’s delicious refreshments made 
up for the scarcity of tales. The hot 
chocolate, sandwiches, salted almonds 
and mints were a feast for hungry 
college girls. 

During the meeting, plans for the 
| tryouts were discussed and decided 
upon. The stories may be of any kind 
and any length; have them typewrit- 
ten, attach your name in a sealed 
envelope to upper left hand corner, 
and hand your story to Larsen Mat- 
tox, 51 Rebekah, by October 9, Sopho- 
mores, Juniors, Seniors, get a sheet 
of paper and a pen and try your luck! 


Freshen Dickie College 
Life On Mars 


Miss Laney Awards Cat 


“Once there was a big black cat; 
glory be to the Sophomores!” And 
once upon a time this coveted animal 
sat upon the table of this year’s 
Junior Class, but that is only a be- 
ginning of the fairy tale. For the 
envious Sophomores were determined 
upon the possession of the dusky kit- 
ty and succeeded last Saturday night 
to snatch from the hands of their 
opponents the most distinguished ani- 
mal of modern times. 


The annual Freshman-Sophomore 
stunt is always the outstanding event 
of the first semester. This year it was 
truly a contest of wits, for each stunt 
was remarkable for its cleverness, 
originality, and characterization. Each 
too, was the result of much earnest 
effort and labor and was. enshrined 
with that atmosphere of distinctness 
which always marks a good stunt. 

Long »efore the appointed tour 
both parties had gathered in the 
chapel to do their part in “pepping 
things up”. With Ada Knight and 
Helena Hermance cheering the fresh- 
man team, and with Evelyn, Powell 
and Martha Lin Manley urging for- 
ward the Sophomores, it was almost 
impossible to decide which class was 
winner in the yelling contest. In fact, 
the shouts and songs of both, sides 
were so intermingled, that it was dif- 
ficult to distinguish “which was 
which.” 

The freshman stunt, written by the 
able hand of Mary Revier, was pre- 
sented first. Under the title of “Mar- 
Can Bes vele™, AMise eturit’ Cndeuvored 
to relate the experiences of a fresh- 
man at the “Mares Sirenium College” 
on Mars. 


The cast of characters follows: 

Freshman from Earth, Louise Sny- 
dor, 

Freshman from Mars, Edna Acker- 
man. 

Sophomores from Mars, Lila Por- 
cher, Hermenia Weil, Georgia Watson 

Miss Flopkins, Josephnie Walker. 

Mr. Hart, Emily Kingsberry. 

Banner Bearers, Mary Crenshaw, 
Josephine Huntley, Carolyn Essig, 
Elizabeth Wallace. 

Miss Hootch, Mary Revier. 

Dancers, Katherine Richards, Emi- 
ly Cope, Eliza Rainey, Mary Mackey 
Hough, Nancy Crowther. 

After several minutes of intermis- 
sion, during which yells and songs 
were featured the sophomore stunt 
was staged. This stunt was the work 
of Caroline McKinney and Caroline 
McCall. It was most unique in theme 
and in presentation. The stunt was 
a short burlesque on the book “Alice 
in Wonderland.” It was rich with 
humor, sarcasm, and wit. Alice, an 
unfortunate member of the freshman 
band, is shown in the first scene down 
in the rabbit hole, trying vainly to 
make bargains on with Mr. 
Tart. Her next appearance in the 
Red Queen’s Rat Court, where she 
was accused and condemned on the 
fault of extreme ignorance. She is 
sentenced to a four-year (or longer) 
course at A. §S. C., with the end in 
view of obtaining the B, A. Sheepskin 
at the end of that time. The characters 
were: 

Mad Hatter, Mae Eskine Irvine. 

Alice, Katherine Johnson. 

Money, Catherine Mitchell, Peggy 
Rankin, Susan Clayton, Alice Wiesche- 
baum, Emily Erlich. 

Fees, Virginia Sevier, Elsa Jacob- 
sen, Theodosia Hollingsworth. 

Red Queen, Martha Crowe. 

Judge, Ellen Douglass Leyburn. 

Caterpillar, Roberta Winter. 

Persecuting Attorney, Emily Stead. 

Jurors, Helen Lewis, Courtney Wil- 
kinson. 

Miss Cole, Mary Davis. 

At the end of the stunts Ellen 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 1) 


books 


Dr. McCain Attends 


Conference in Richmond 


Classical Club Holds 
First Meeting 


Miss Campbell Gives Lecture 
On Rome and Greece 


The Classical Club held its first 
meeting for this year in the Mnemosy- 
nean Hall last Friday evening, Sep- 
tember 24. After the meeting had 
been called to order by Mary Palmer 
Caldwell, the president, Clarkie Davis 
gave a report from the nominating 
committee. The suggested nomina- 
tions were unanimously approved, 
and the other officers elected for th2 
ensuing year were: Margaret Hyatt, 
vice-president; Margaret Hines, sec- 
retary and treasurer; Sara Fullbright, 
chairman of the progrdm committee. 

The business part of the meeting 
was soon dispensed with, and then 
came the most enjoyable part of the 
evening. Miss Campbell, professor 
of Latin and Greek, who has been 
touring Europe this summer, gave a 
very entertaining lecture. She had se- 
cured slides for the lecture in order 
that we might see, as well as hear of, 
the places she ha dvisited. As we sat 
the places she had visited. As we sat 
the pictures and hearing descriptions 
of the places, it was easy to give full 
play to the imagination and find our- 
selves gliding over the sparkling blue 
water at Venice, that famous city of 
the sea, while we listened to the 
broken speech of the old Italian who 
was guiding tile ‘boat. 


soul but be filled with the beauty and | 


majesty of the ancient world? 
Despite the wonders of Venice, 
Rome, of necessity, held more interest 
for the classical student. Rome, with 
its ruins of temples and highways, 
with its world-known Tiber and its 
glamour of ancient glory, was a place 
of fascination. The Tiber, Miss 
Campbell assured us, was not the 
dirty, yellow, little stream that we had 
always imagined it to be. It was small, 
to be sure, but in color it was a beau- 
tiful, silvery olive-green like the 


leaves of the gnarled old olive trees; 


which grew on the hillsides. Miss 
Campbell also told of the excavations 


|near Ostia, the port of Rome. 


(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) 


North Carolina Club 
Plans Program 


Susan Rose Elected 
President 


The first of the North 
Carolina Club for the year was held 
at 9 o’clock on Friday 26, in Prope- 
leyan Though there 47 
girls from North Carolina here, only 
The old and 


new girls arranged themselves in a 


meeting 


room. are 


about 25 were present. 


large friendly circle, which was pres- 
ently joined by Mr. Rankin, who, while 
not a girl from North Carolina, is 
at least proud of his Charlotte birth- 
place. 

Susan Rose was nominated for 
and unanimously elected. 
told her 


where she was from to the circle, thus 


president, 
Next everybody name and 
getting acquainted with everybody 
else, so conversation was free and 
refreshments 


merry while 


served. 


were 


The first Friday of every month 
was appointed as a meeting day, and 
as it was perilously near “lights” the 
It looks like a 
great year for the North Carolinians. 


meeting adjourned. 


How could the,’ Clubs, Ete 


Southern Women's Educa- 
tional Alliance Holds 
Meeting 


Dr. McCain Speaker At 
Luncheon 


Everyone will be interested in 
knowing that Dr. McCain attended a 
conference held by the Southern Wom- 
en’s Educational Alliance last week 
in Richmond, Va. The purpose of this 
meeting was to determine the value of 
student aid, such as _ scholarships, 
loans and faculties for student self- 
aid work, and the best methods of 
administering these. Dr. McCain at- 
tended the executive committee meet- 
ing of the Alliance and was the prin- 
cipal speaker at the luncheon given 
by the members of the Alliance Board 
who lived in Richmond. 

Other organizations which were 
represented at the luncheon were the 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 
the Daughters of the American Revo- 
lution, the College Club, the Business 
and Professional Women’s Club, the 
Business Woman’s Council, the Colon- 
ial Dames, the American Red Cross, 
the Richmond School of Social Work 
and Public Health, the Richmond Edu- 
cation Association, Hollins Alumnae 
Association, Richmond Business Col- 
lege, the Vassar Club, the Kiwanis 
Club, the Virginia League of Women 
Voters, Co-operative Education Asso- 
ciation, the Council of Jewish Women, 
the Virginia Federation of Women’s 
SWamen's > State f uxiliary® 
to the Medical Society of Virginia and. 
the General Board of Education, 

Dr. McCain was met at the train by 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Calendar of Events for 
October 


Seniors te Entertain College on 
Hallowe’en 


October 4th, Saturday Night—The 
Freshmen and Sophomores staged 
their annual battle of wits. 

October 11th—Miss Gooch says 
she is going to give the weather an- 
other trial for a suitable night on 
which to present “Midsummer Night’s 
Dream”. This play was to have been 
given during commencement week last 
year, but on account of the fact that 
the rain prevented the performance 
of the play at both the appointed 
dates, it proved to be “Love’s Labor 
Lost.” If the weather is too inclem- 
ent on October 11th, there will be 
“Much Ado About Nothing”, and the 
play will be postponed until October 
13th. There will be only two changes 
in the cast of characters. Isabelle 
Clark will take Mary Palmer Cald- 
well’s pace as Hyppolytas, and Fran- 
ces Harwell, of the class of ’23, Har- 
riett Ferrington’s place as the Fairy 
Queen. Miss Gooch is very much 
pleased with the enthusiasm with 
which the cast is taking up the re- 
hearsals, and believes that each role 
will be played with more artistic real- 
ization, 

October 18th—The Night of Octo- 
ber the 18th is to be given over for 
Hoase Stunt night. There will be thir- 
teen stunts, and each will be spon- 
sored by a member of Hoasce. 

October 25th.—On October the 25th, 
the Senior Class plans to entertain the 
college community at a Hallow’een 
party given in Inman attic. Every- 
one is advised to take on a good dose 
of steady nerves and go to meet the 
hobgobblins, have your fortune told, 
and be introduced into the Chamber 
of Horrors. 

October 13th-26th.—The week, Oc- 
tober 13-26, is to be National Picture 


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EDITORIAL 


THE AGNES SCOTT SPIRIT. 


There is nothing more elusive, nothing more difficult to ex- 
press in words, and yet, nothing of more vital importance or of 
greater value to a college than its spirit. Perhaps, greater than 
all other gifts to the college, was the gift of the example of the 


_ life and spirit of Mrs. Agnes Scott in whose honor Agnes Scott 


was founded and for whom the college was named. Mrs. Scott 
in her life has given to us an example of-what Agnes Scott Spirit 
should be. If it were possible to express this spirit in words we 
might say that the Agnes Scott Spirit was embodied in the three 
words, Faith, Love, and Service. 


Built upon the rocks of Agnes Scott’s faith the “Spirit House” 
of Agnes Scott had a firm foundation. Upon this foundation of 
solid faith, material of love and service have been placed by those 
who have labored and, we think have succeeded, well, in making 
Agnes Scott stand or the highest principles of honor; and for those 
things which are finest and best in the young womanhood of 


' America, today. 


We feel that this spirit of Agnes Scott is having an influence 
today far greater and wider than it is possible for anyone to re- 
alize. For each girl, though she may have spent only a year or 
two at Agnes Scott, has carried away with her this ideal of Faith, 
and Love, and Service to make life better for those with whom 
she has lived since her college days. 


This spirit of Agnes Scott seems to be embodied in a prayer 
of Mrs. Agnes Scott, written over a hundred years ago, in 1821. 


May we, the students of Agnes Scott, today, hold dear this 
gift of priceless value, and pass it on to those who may come after 
us in these same words of Mrs. Agnes Scott. 


“Oh, Almighty and most merciful God, I desire to draw near 
to Thee. I confess and lament before Thee the many transgres- 
sions of my life; I have indeed left undone the things I ought to 
have done. Oh, give me true and deep repentance; oh give me 
faith to believe Thy Holy Word and to accept Thy gracious invi- 
tations and to rely upon Thy precious promises. For the sake of 
Thy dear Son, pardon all my sins and receive me graciously as Thy 
child, and may Thy Holy Spirit renew and sanctify my heart. 


Oh Lord be with me, and guide me and help and strengthen 
me now and always. Though I am sinful and unworthy, yet let 
me hope in the Lord with whom there is mercy. May I be enabled 
prudently to steer my course through all difficulties in my way; 
give me patience and courage to withstand all assaults and oppo- 
sition which I have to encounter. And the children, oh my God, 
which Thou hast given me and those that ought to be under my 
direction, I return unto Thee. May they know Thee and be known 
by Thee; and I pray Thee, oh Lord, to grant unto them the con- 
tinued help of Thy Holy Spirit, that they may be preserved from 
sin and may become faithful in any good work. May they be 
temperate, sober, and diligent; may they learn to command their 
tempers and restrain their tongues; may they be kind and mer- 
ciful to each other even as they hope that God for Christ’s sake 
will forgive them. Let my imperfect prayer be answered. Hear 
these my petitions, oh grant, Father, for Thy mercy’s sake in 
Christ Jesus our Saviour, to whom with the Holy Spirit I aseribe 
all praise forever. Amen.” 


GLEE CLUB PLANS FOR YEAR. 


Plan Seyeral Short Trips for This 
Season. 


The Glee Club was one of the first 
organizations on the campus to begin 
work for the coming year. A meet- 
ing of the old members was held, and 
later try-outs for new members. As 
yet the names of the new members 
have not been made public, but it is 
expected that a large number of new 
voices will be added to the chorus. 

For the first time in its history the 
Agnes Scott Glee Club went on a 
trip to give a concert last spring. 
This concert was such a success, how- 
ever, that the club is planning to go 
on several short trips and give con- 
certs this year. As yet, however, the 
program for the year has not been 
fully made. 


GRANDMOTHER PARTY GREAT 
SUCCESS. 


The Freshmen ordinarily look young 
and untutored enough, but if you had 
seen them in the gym that night, all 
dressed up in enormous bows of rib- 
bon, tiny short dresses, and socks, and 
hugging little dolls, honestly, you 
couldn't have told them from your 
kid sisters. But, never mind, they 
were having a good time. And so, 
by the way, were their grandmothers, 
the dignified, gray-haired, lavender 
and old-laced Seniors and Juniors. For 
this, you know, was the grandmother 
party. 

The features of the evening de- 
signed to entertain the little tots were 
story-telling by Mrs. Hazen Smith, 
life work secretary of the Southern 
Presbyterian Church, dancing by 
Frances Tennent and Emily Cope, and 
singing by Frances Bitzer and Mar- 
tha Lin Manly. Lolly-pops and ap- 
ples, the children’s favorites, were 
served. 

Pictures taken of the grandmother 
party are now on sale and may be 
obtained by signing up on the bulle- 
tin board in Main. 


MRS. SYDENSTRICKER GIVES 
TEA FOR MRS. SMITH 


Bible Majors Meet Mrs. Smith 


One of the most delightful of the 
various informal parties given for 
Mrs. Hazen Smith, was a tea at Mrs. 
Sydenstricker’s house at West Side on 
Friday afternoon, Sept. 26, at four- 
thirty o’clock. At this time, Mrs. 
Sydenstricker invited her Bible ma- 
jors to meet Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith 
told them many interesting stories of 
her travels and experiences in China, 
and the girls had an opportunity to 
talk with her and ask her questions 
about her work. Then tea and cake 
were served by Mrs. Sydenstricker. 
All the girls were delighted to have 
this opportunity of becoming ac- 
quainted with Mrs. Smith, who, since 
her arrival on September 25, has won 
the heart of every Agnes Scott girl. 


K. U. B. PLANS YEAR'S WORK. 
TRY-OUTS HELD. 


K. U. B. held its first meeting of 
the year on Thursday, October 2nd. 
Plans for this year’s work were re- 
ported by the president, Miss Eliza- 
beth Griffin. The club has contracted 
to report weekly for the three At- 
lanta papers, the “Journal’’, the “Con- 
stitution”, and the “Georgian”, the 
Decatur paper, two Macon papers and 
one from Augusta. The Atlanta papers 
are to be furnished weekly with long 
articles giving the week’s most im- 
portant news, and all during the week 
with shorter articles and notices. 
These newspapers, of course, pay K. 
U. B. for material, just as they do 
other reporters. So the organization, 
as well as being an important factor 
in bringing our college before the peo- 
ple of the South, is remunerative fi- 
nancially, It also affords excellent 
training for girls interested in jour- 
nalism. 

K. U. B., having so much work to 
do, needs new members. Try-outs are 
accordingly being held now and all 
who are interested in journalism are 
urged to try their hands. 


TEA ROOM OFFERS SPECIAL 
DINNERS. 


The tea room now offers a special 
dinner daily for fifty cents. Watch 
the bulletin board for announcement 
of change of menu. 


YW... A 


On Sunday, October 5, was held one 
of the most beautiful Y. W. C. A. 


services of the year—Recognition 
Services. After an inspiring talk by 
Frances Lincoln, the Freshmen, 


dressed in white and carrying candles, 
walked down the aisle and lighted the 
candles by that of the president. This 
is a symbol of the light which the 
Y. W. C. A. hopes to hand on to every 
girl on the campus. It is a symbol 
of the light which it hopes every girl 
will hand on to others when once she 
has received it. 


There seems to have been a good 


start made along this line, for num- 
bers of girls have signed up for the 


various fields of social service. Keep 
up the good work, girls, the lines you 
have chosen all need you and the | 
Y. W. appreciates your co-operation | 
along this line. 

The Student Industrial work is soon 
to be begun. The city Y. W. has 
moved into a new home, so they have 
not become sufficiently straight for 
us to begin this work in the next week 
or so, but when it does begin we hope 
to have a great deal of news for you. 

In regard to the new Y. W. home— 
they are in need of things to add to 
the beauty and hominess of the place. 
They have a house with lovely home- 
like rooms, open fires and easy chairs, 
but there are many things lacking. 
If any girls have vases, table covers 
or any other articles which would 
help a house become a home, please 
bring them to 25 Rebekah and they 
will be taken to the right place. 


PLANS FOR “SILHOUETTE.” 


Annual to Come Out on July 15th. 


Miss Marjorie Speake, editor of the 
“Silhouette”, brought before the stu- 
dent body recently the question of 
what kind of dress students having 
individual pictures in the annual 
should be required to wear when the 
photographs are taken. It was de- 
cided by vote that street 7 
should be worn. 


aa 


It was also agreed by vote ‘on in| 


order to include in the annual May 
Day pictures, debaters’ pictures, ete. 
(those activities coming after April 
ist) the material should not be sent 
to press until May ist and the annual 
expected on July 15th. 

The “Silhouette” for this year prom- 
ises to be unusually good. Among 
the new pictures introduced will be 
individual pictures for the Freshmen. 


CLASSICAL CLUB HOLDS FIRST 
MEETING. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


Athens could not be left out, so we 
heard some interesting bits of infor- 
mation about the “Classic City.” It 
would seem to us that the people of 
that fair city do things backwards. 
The children, when crying a greet- 
ing would say, “I soi, I soi” (Idou), 
but instead of waving their hands to 
the person whom they welcomed they 
waved to themselves. It was inter- 
esting also to learn of the street cars 
in Athens. What an anachronism! 

Miss Campbell’s lecture was humor- 
ous as well as instructive, for she told 
of quite a few amusing incidents that 
occurred during her travels. The eve- 
ning passed all too quickly. We all 
sincerely hope that Miss Campbell 
will tell us more about her trip some 
time in the future. 


DAY STUDENT 
NEWS 


Every class of freshmen holds much 
of interest to the onlookers from the 


sophomore, junior and senior side 
lines. Some from the present class 
of ’28 belong to the first syllable of 
their acquired title for one year 
fresh—and one reason is this—One 
calmly strolled up to a certain mem- 
ber of the faculty and asked her if 
she was scared of the sophomores 
and added that she didn’t exactly re- 
semble a wearer of the green! And 
another one actually demanded of a 
staid and haggard looking senior how 
she knew so positively that the sopho- 
mores weren’t responsible for trying 
to force payment for mail boxes— 
and accused her of being a member 
of the class of ’27! But these are pit- 
falls into which any one of us might 
have been ensnared. 

Some lamentations really are sad! 
Mary Smith is bemoaning her fate 
that in one week she has had only 
two specials and one “ordinary” letter 
from the University of North Caro- 
lina! Of course, if Mary has any ob- 
jections about the number, she might 
let one of the rest of us read them 
if she hasn’t the time to do it herself. 
And Ruth Liggin, now a Georgia 
Peach of Decatur, receives a letter 
from Atlanta every day—and it isn’t 
an advertisement either, though it 
may be classed in the Want Ad col- 
umn. 

We had hoped there was no gap be- 
tween the day students and the board- 
ing students, but according to Emily 
Zellars there is a huge one, and she 
wants everyone to help fill it up by 
giving gold papers and glee to 


report from the one already ti 
sounds mighty cniieiiacags ‘at 
praises of the hike leader are soar- 
ing aloft to Olympus. Keep on the 
lookout for the others—and if you 
go on these marches you can be sure 
that Louise Bansley will give you just 
the best possible time. 


HOASC ANNOUNCES NEW 
MEMBERS. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


of student activities, in student gov- 
ernment, in Y.W.C.A.,in athletics, 
on the publications, and in the clubs. 
Not only have they done efficient, con- 
structive work for the college, but 
they have done it with the true Agnes 
Scott spirit of service and love and 


unselfishness. For this they have been 


found worthy to become members of 
Hoasce. ’ 
The formal initiation of the new 
members took place Tuesday night, — 
October 7, followed by a lovely ban- 
quet in the tea room. The members, 
the faculty members, Miss Hopkins 
and the following alumnae were at the 
banquet: Nell Buchanan, Margaret 
Bland, Mrs. Dieckmann, Hilda Mc- 
Connell, Dick Scandrett, Emmie Fick- 
len, Mary Goodrich, Daisy Frances 
Smith, Polly Stone and Frances Amis. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 


gant buildings with modern conven- 
iences, full and able faculty. Courses 


leading to A. B. degree. 


Best ad- 


vantage in music and art. 


For Catalog, Address J. R. McCAIN, President 


TH -E AGONISTIC 3 
< talk prevailed until the wee small 
Athletic News || nours; and the campers went to sleen|| Alumnae News GID DIE. GOSSIP 
without a bed-time story. 
Athletic Board Goes Camping Sunday came; and the rain devel-| Misses Polly Stone and Carrie 
f : + : > . “eak-| Scandrett, of Atlanta, were visitors , ’ 
Last Saturday afternoon the ath-| oped into a drizzle. The girls brea aE: thavediiags last wouks By Flashlight Wed, Night | That sounds big, doesn’t it! But— 


letic board accompanied by Miss 
Randolph, Miss Haynes and Miss Sin- 
clair, set out for Pine Lodge. The 
campers were bid farewell by certain 
members of the faculty who wished 
them a happy voyage (this term be- 
ing quite correct, considering the rain 
that we were having at the time). But 
even the downpour could not dampen 
the hearts of those who were to spend 
a week-end at such a cozy retreat in 
the woods. So it was with much 
joviality that the girls lit the camp 
fire, their destination having been 
reached without any mishap. 

That night every one crowded about 
the open fire place and played numer- 
The lifting 
of a person into the air by the tips 
of the fingers was the stunt that cre- 
ated the most excitement. Finally 
the room was brought to order and 


ous games and tricks. 


a business meeting followed. Emily 
Spivey presiding. The plans for the 

were discussed and 
The Hikers Club is a 
new organization that dates its origin 
from that night. After the meeting 


ensuing year 
formulated. 


fasted on things they cooked them- 
selves; and spent the remainder of 
the day writing letters, reading maga- 
zines and doing as they pleased. Late 
in the afternoon Miss Randolph, Hel- 
ena Hermance, Mary Keesler, Evelyn 
Powell, and Miriam Preston rescued 
a boat from the depths of the lake, 
and after bailing the water out of 
it, took a precarious scouting trip to 
the opposite shore. Here they found 
a better boat tied fast to a landing 
stake. Helena fortunately made the 
remark that Mr. Venable had offered 
So straight- 
way the cable was loosened, Herculean 


to let us use his boats. 


efforts being necessary to accomplish 
the deed. Then the party set out on 
another expedition, proud of a boat 
that did not leak. 

Sunday night every one went to bed 
comparatively early, only to be awak- 
ened on Monday morning to the reali- 


zation that they must return to the 
campus and to classes. However, 
work doesn’t seem to have occupied 
all of their time for the hockey teams 
are already being formed and games 
planned, 


SOPHOMORES PRESENT  BUR- 
LESQUE ON ALICE IN 
WONDERLAND 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


Douglass Leyburn, president of the 
Sophomore class, presented the fresh- 
men with a bag containing over six- 
teen hundred pennies which had been 


collected as fees for Hoasc, chapel | 


seats, date space, etc. The freshmen 
seemed to feel quite repaid for their 
generous efforts towards the better- 
ment of the college. 

All this time the three judges, Miss 
Hale, Miss Howson, and Miss Laney, 


were struggling to decide which class 
deserved the black cat, and after a 
short while came to an unanimous de- 
cision in favor of the Sophomores. 

It was the end of a perfect day for 
the Sophomores. They gave evidence 
of their enthusiasm and delight by 
forming a snake chain and dancing all 
over the campus. 

This was the first time that the 
cat has been in the hands of this 
class for years, but it shall not be 
the last. For next year, the Sopho- 
mores are counting on urging their 
sister class on to victory. 

All praise to the class of ’27! 


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Miss Margarite Dobbs is located 
this year at LaGrange, Ga. She is 
head of the science department in 
the high school there. 

Miss Lucile Little and Miss Mary 
Mann were guests at the Alumnae 
House last week. 

Miss Louise Hendricks has a posi- 
tion this year as teacher of mathe- 
matics in Cedartown, Ga. 

Miss Elizabeth Henry and Miss 
Beulah Davidson, of Tate, were 
guests of friends here last week-end. 

Miss Gwyn Cannon is teaching Latin 
and French in the high school at 
Cedartown, Ga. 

Miss Margaret McDow is the guest 
of Miss Bland. 


DR. McCAIN ATTENDS CONFER- 
ENCE IN RICHMOND. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


several of our alumnae who are now 
in Richmond: Fannie Campbell, Beth 
McClure, Josephine Logan, Mary 
Caldwell, and he was later entertained 
at breakfast by the Agnes Scott Col- 
lege Alumnae of Richmond. 


The Southern Woman’s Educational 
Alliance, whose chairman is Miss 
Ovie Latham Hatcher, has recently 
extended its work so much that it 
found it convenient to open a second 
office in Atlanta, Grace Building. 

The Alliance has done in the past, 
and is now doing, a wonderful work 
among Southern girls. By obtaining 
scholarships, or loans, or opportuni- 
ties for self-aid, it has enabled many 
a girl to attend college or an indus- 
trial or professional school. The Al- 
liance itself does not give scholar- 
ships but applies to colleges for girls, 
and is often able to obtain aid when 
the girl individually could not. The 
Alliance also recommends girls ap- 
plying to it to many societies which 
have scholarships at their command, 
such as the U. D. C. or the D. A. R. 


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at 10:30, 
Darling Giddy: 

Be sure you don’t tell anybody that 
I’m using my flashlight to write to 
you, but I think it’s all right to. You 
see I’ve studied the hand book so much 
that I know all the rules—nearly. Why 
I speck I know more about them than 
lots of old girls. But I’m not sure 
about the flashlight, so you’d better 
not tell or I might get restricted. 

Did I ever tell you what that 
means? Well, it means that you can’t 
go to Atlanta for a whole week! Can 
you imagine such a thing? And speak- 
ing of Atlanta—you ought to be 
proud of me because I can find my 
way around so well. Why one fresh- 
man—I think her name’s Emily 
Kingsbery—made or bought herself 
a map, a regular map, of Atlanta. 
At least I guess she did because I 
saw a notice on the bulletin board 
that she’d lost one. Imagine having 
to stop at Five Points and take out 
your map to see how to get to High’s! 
If everybody did that wouldn’t there 
be a traffic jam? 

Oh Giddy! I’m so excited!! You 
know down here the freshmen and 
sophomores each have a stunt at the 
beginning of the year to see which 
one can win the black cat. Person- 
ally, I don’t see why it had to be a 
cat—a dog is so much nicer. 


a great honor to win it, and do you 
know I’m sure we’re going to win it. 
I was up in Catherine Graeber’s room 
the other day and it was sitting on 
her table and it has lots of little 
silver bells around its neck. Wouldn’t 
you get excited over that? And, Gid- 
dy, I’m kinda, just a tiny bit (you 
know what I mean) scared of the 
sophomores. You don’t reckon they’! 
win tho’, do you? 

And guess what? I’m taking I. G.!! 


And it’s 
not even a live one—but anyway it’s 


(oh there I go forgetting. Miss Pres- 
ton told us never to start a sentence 
off with “but” and I forgot and did 
it; but you won’t mind me doing it in 
your letters, and when I write to her 
Christmas or next year I'll be real 
sure and not do it.)—As I started 
to say tho’, I. G. really means indi- 
vidual gym, and you have to have 
something the matter with your feet 
or head to take it. The other day 
Pearl Kunnes—she sits at my table 
too—was telling me how easy it was 
and she said when you didn’t want 
to do anything else you could just 
lie down on the floor and pretend 
you were breathing. I’d be seared to 
do that tho’, wouldn’t you? I guess 
Miss Randolph must like for you to 
do it because when I went to my class 
this afternoon there were about six 
people lying on the’ floor and they 
didn’t look like they were doing very 
much, 

Giddy, my flashlight’s getting pret- 
ty dim but I must tell you one more 
thing before I go to bed. You know 
during Sophomore Week Georgia 
Watson, she’s one of my real inti- 
mate friends, had to go to Frances 
Lincoln after we had asked the bless- 
ing and tell her she ought to be 
ashamed not to close her eyes during 
the blessing. I never could see tho’ 
how Georgia could tell they were open 
when she sat behind Frances. I 
imagine Frances was awfully embar- 
rassed, and ’specially since she’s a 
senior—don’t you? Oh yes! She’s the 
one that Margaret Gerrig called 
“Miss” for a whole week and asked 
why she wasn’t in the procession the 
morning they announced all the honor 
students. I wonder if any freshman 


will call me “Miss” when I’m a senior. 

There comes the proctor down the 

hall and I must put out the flashlight. 
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WANTED—By Mrs. Davies, an 
Almanac to tell when Agnes Scott 
girls get “full”. 


Reassuring 
“Now if anything should go wrong 
with this experiment,” said Mr. Holt, 
“We would all be blown sky-high. 
Come a little closer now, my dear 
children, so you may follow me.” 


Co-Ed: “What’s the height of your 
ambition ?” 

Ed: “Don’t know exactly, but she 
comes about to my shoulders.” 


A hundred years ago today a wilder- 
ness was here; 

A man with powder in his gun went 

forth to hunt a deer, 

now the times have changed 

somewhat—are on a different 

plan, 

A dear with powder on her nose goes 
forth to hunt a man. 


But 


She’s Done Gone” 

A salesman bringing his bride 
south on their honeymoon visited a 
hotel where he boasted of the fine 
honey. 

“Sambo,” he asked the colored wait- 
er, “where’s my honey?” 

“Ah don’t know boss”, replied Sam- 
ho, eyeing the lady cautiously. “She 


%” 


don’t work here no mo’, 


Had His Own Menagerie 

An irritable old sportsman was 
aroused from his bed at three o’clock 
in the morning by the insistent ring- 
ing of his door bell, On answering, he 
found a seedy drunkard struggling 
hard to maintain his equilibrium. 

“What do you mean by waking me 
up at this hour?” 

“Ish you Mr. Smithers?” 

“Yes, yes. What of it?” 

“Ish you the gent what advertised 
for a partner to go lion-huntin’ in| 
Afr-ca?”’ 

“Yes, I’m the gentleman. What do 
you want to know about it?” 

“Nothin’ ceptin’ I just wanted to, 
tell you that on no condishuns what- 
soever will I go with you.” 


A negro woman of mammoth: pro- 
portions and inky complexion’ was in 


an automobile accident. She was 
transported to the hospital where she 
soon regained consciousness. The 


doctor seeking to comfort her a bit, | 
said to her: : 


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“You will undoubtedly be able to 
obtain a considerable amount of dam- 
ages, Mrs. Johnson.” 

“Damages!” said Mrs. Johnson 
“What ah want wif damages? Ah got 
enuf damages now. What ah wants is 
repairs.” 


When the clergyman at the colored 
couple’s wedding read “love, honor and 
obey”, the groom stopped him remark- 
ing: 

“Pahson, read those words over 
once mo’ so de lady kin git the full 
meaning of ’em; cus I’se been married 
befo’.” 


Irate Hubby—‘“I’m always at odd 
with Mary; every time I make up my 
mind to stay in, she makes up hers 
for to go out.” 


First Roommate (writing): “I 
can’t write what I want to now, be-| 
cause Mary is looking over my shoul-| 
der.” 

Mary (indignantly) ‘“Who’s looking 
over your old shoulder?” 


First Roomie: “What’s your room- 
mate like?” 
Second: “Everything I’ve got.” 


S: “I hear Imogene is getting mar- 
ried.” 

O: “Who’s the lucky man?” 

S: “Her father.” 


MRS. HAZEN SMITH TALKS IN 
CHAPEL. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


Mrs. Smith suggested five steps 
which it is valuable for one to take in 
choosing one’s life’s calling. First of | 
all, look up: seek His Will, line up on! 
His side; second, look in: find your own | 
talents, whether they be two, or five, 
Then look out: seek the needs} 
of the world; seek the place where} 
you can do most good. Next, talk it| 
over with some older friend; and 1aate| 
ly, go to work—you are on the Lord’s 
side; who can prevail against you? 


OCTOBER. | 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


week. Mrs. G. B. Hinman, as chair-| 
man of school art in Atlanta, will 
call attention to this week in schools, | 
and is coming out some time during) 
the week to speak to us at the chapel 
hour. 


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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR it 


AGONISTIC 
EXCHANGES 


The Agonistic wishes to acknowl- 
edge the following exchanges: 


Does the fact that the Old English 
is compulsory for English majors 
keep students from majoring in that 
department? 

Should A. and B. students be elimi- 
nated from fina] examinations? 


The Salemite Is Student Government capable of 
The Mississippian making all the social rules? 

The Carolinian Should students have to pass a 
The Furman Hornet swimming test before graduating? 
The Gamecock. 


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Here is one Freshman’s first im- 
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“The welcome is probation; 
The parting, graduation; 
In between, examination, 
Relieved a little by vacation.” 
—Anne Turner. 
The Salemite. | | 


a IELLIS 


There was once an owl lived in a}| 
tree; 
A wise old, wise old, owl was he. 
From early morn till late at night 
To no one’s—save his own—delight, 
He sang a song—the self-same song— 
Just two short, skimpy verses long. 
And one was this: If you are sage, 
You'll read our advertisement page; 
The other ran: If you are Wise; 
You'll buy from folks who advertise. 
—F. B. 
The Salemite. 


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Goucher—The Goucher Weekly, in || 
order to get a consensus of opinion 
on some of the most frequently dis-| | 
cussed questions at the college, has 
published a questionnaire and request- 
ed all the students to answer the 
questions with either “Yes” or “No”, 
Following are some of the most gen- 
eral of them: 

Do you approve of the présent cut 
system? 

Should married women’ be allowed 
in college? 

If you saw a Goucher girl in a dis- 
approved place, would you report her? 

Should Physical Training’ be ‘com- 
pulsory ? 

Do you favor the Smith plan which 
enables A. B. students to do research 
work their last two years in college? 

Should Bible be a required course? | L = 


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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1924 


No. 4 


Blackfriars Present 
“A Midsummer 
Night’s Dream” 


First Play a Great 
Success 


Horace or Ovid would have said 
that the Gods, in making their weath- 
er plans for October the eleventh, 
must have been considerate of and 
propitious to the plans of the Black- 
friars at Agnes Scott, for the open air 
presentation of “Midsummer Night’s 
Dream.” Howbeit, the two years’ de- 
lay, caused by unfavorable weather, 
rather gave the beauty of the night 
an added significance, and certainly 
did not decrease the skill of the actors, 
All of the cast entered into the spirit 
of the play and each role was played 
with noteworthy artistic realization, 
expressive of Miss Gooch’s admirable 
training. 

The atmosphere of the play created 
by the fairies was light and airy. The 
delicate pastel shades of their dresses 
combined to give a very beautiful 
and artistic effect. Mary Freeman 
played the role of Puck—the mischiev- 
ous little sprite and instigator of mis- 
chief—with charming ability and 
power of interpretation. Blackfriars 
is especially grateful to Miss Frances 
Harwell, of the class of ’23, for her 
delightful performance of the role of 
the Fairy Queen. 

The group of mortals also gave an 
interesting interpretation of their 
parts. The two groups of lovers, 
Hermia and Demetrius, and Helena 
and Lysander—perhaps the most dif- 
ficult of all the roles, were very real- 
istically portrayed. 

The Interlude group, the horny 
handed men of Athens, furnished the 
comic element of the play. Florence 
Perkins’ performance of the part of 
the plustever, Bottomy was excelletit: 

The orchestra was furnished by the 
courtesy of Mr. Alton O’Steen. 


The cast of characters follow: 

Mortals: 

Theseus—Frances Lincoln. 
Hypolita—Isabelle Clarke. 
Hermia—Mildred Pitner. 
Helena—Catherine Graeber. 
Lysander—Georgia Mae Little. 
Philostrate—Mary Ben Wright. 
Egeus—Frances Bitzer. 

Horny handed men of Athens: 
Bottom—Florence Perkins. 
Snout—Anne McCay. 
Snug—Louise Buchanan. 
Starveling—Helena Hermance. 
Flute—Mary Anne McKinney. 
Quince—Frances Amis. 

Fairies: 

Oberon—Sara Slaughter. 
Titania—Frances Harwell. 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) 


Atlanta Concert Series 
Program Announced 


Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 
Here In December 


Every year a number of Agnes 
Scott girls take advantage of the con- 
certs given by the Atlanta Music 
Club. Parties of ten girls and a chap- 
eron are made up and season tickets 
are secured. Four parties have al- 
ready been formed for the coming con- 
cert series. 

The program for this series is es- 
pecially varied, and includes a num- 
ber of the world’s most famous mu- 
sicians. Instiumental, vocal and or- 
chestral music, all find a place in 
this series, which includes programs 
by: 

Maria Jer'tza. 

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 

John McCormack 

Harold Bauer and Casals. 

Jascha Heifetz. 

The first concert of the series will 
take place on Saturday night, Octob- 
er the eighteenth. On that night the 
world famous Prima Donna, Soprana, 
Maria Jeritza, will give a concert. 
This event is being anticipated with 
much pleasure by a large group of 
Agnes Seott girls. 


Association 
Program 


Lecture 
Plans 


Tentative Lectures 
Announced 


The Agnes Scott Lecture Associa- 
tion has behind it four years of suc- 
cess, and if it is able to put into 
effect the plans it has for this year, 
its supporters may expect to enjoy 
a season of even more entertaining 
and enlightening lectures. So far, 
except for what has already been 
achieved—the delightful lecture by 
Stephen Leacock—the plans are only 
tentative. 

At a recent meeting, however, it 
was suggested that such notables as 
Fannie Hearst, the author and play- 
wright; Carl Van Doren, editor of the 
“Century”; Monsieur Guerrand, the 
French writer; Hobson, the famous 
economist; Mrs. MacDowell, wife of 
the well-known composer; Mr. Tsuru- 
mi, a Japanese speaker; and either 
Jane Adams or Grace Abbott, promi- 
nent in social service work, be in- 
vited to visit us and speak on appro- 
priate subjects. The committee in 
charge is also considering an eminent 
chemist as this year’s scientific speak- 
er. 

The lectures of Dubose Heyward 
were so enjoyable last year, that he 
may be asked to make a “return en- 
gagement”. As there will be a joint 
meeting of the American and English 
Historical Associations this year in 
our country, an attempt may be made 
to procure for us one of the English 
historians. The Lecture Association 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) 


“Add to thy virtue, knowledge.” 


Literary Clubs Hold 
Tryouts | 


B. O. Z. and K. U. B. Elect New 
Members 


That literary genius is burning 
brightly on the Agnes Scott campus 
was shown by the excellent tryouts 
which were submitted to B. O. Z. and 
K. U. B. last week. Both of these 
clubs received an unusually large num- 
ber of tryouts which showed literary 
ability and promise of future fame. 

K. U. B. met Thursday night, Oc- 
tober 9, to judge their tryouts. The 
following journalists were added to 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) 


International Relations 
Club Holds First 
Meeting 


Interesting Plans For Year 
Announced 


The International Relations Club 
held its first meeting Thursday night, 
October 9. This was a business meet- 
ing in which the plans for the year 
were discussed and many interesting 
features for programs decided upon. 

Mary Breedlove, president of the 
club, has called a meeting of the ex- 
ecutive board, composed of Eunice 
Kell, vice-president; Olivia Swan, sec- 
retary; Sarah Tate, Isabel Ferguson 
and Dorothy Keith to meet the first 
of next week, to draw up a new con- 
stitution. 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 


Discussion Groups 
Very Successful 


Evening Watch Program 
Changed 


Evening Watch is a service dear 
to the hearts of Agnes Scott girls. 
To get together once a week for a 
short discussion of problems that con- 
front college students, not only brings 
the girls closer together, but is in 
other ways helpful and uplifting. The 
Evening Watch service forms a sort 
of safety-valve which keeps the strain 
of college life from becoming too 
great. 

This year the services are conduct- 
ed on a somewhat different plan. 
Every Wednesday night at nine-for- 
ty-five the girls in each dormitory 
meet for a brief discussion of some 
one problem of college life. Instead 
of the scripture reading and hymns 
which were used up to this year, there 
is a prayer, and the rest of the time 
is given over to examination of the 
question under consideration. 

There have already been two Even- 
ing Watch services. At the first 
meeting the argument centered around 
the question of the proper method 
of observing the Sabbath. Various 
opinions were held, but all agreed 
that if we try to keep the Sabbath 
in the way that we think the Master 
would have us keep it, we cannot 
go far wrong. At the second meet- 
ing the system of church cuts was 
discussed. Some held that the sys- 
tem now in use is an ideal one, while 
others emphatically protested that 


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~ |Seniors Entertain 


College With 
“Faculty Take Off” 


Take Off A Big 
Success 


Faculty 


The feeling of excitement was at 
its height on Wednesday night. The 
atmosphere of the chapel was intense 
with eagerness and expectancy. The 
oceasion was the making public of all 
the defects, peculiarities, idiosyncra- 
cies and temperaments of the august 
body of the faculty. 
of “faculty take-off.” 

Naturally enough, all the student 
body was present to see the “favor- 
ite” by some 
member of the student body. Like- 
wise, and with the same degree of 
curiosity, every member of the fac- 
ulty was there to view herself in the 
eyes of the students. No ill-will was 
felt, however, between these two se- 
lect bodies; for the faculty responded 
to the fifteen “Rahs” from the stu- 
dents in such a way that would have 
been 


It was the night 


teacher as presented 


a credit to participants in 


stunt night. 

The chapel stage was the scene of 
the dining hall, but only the two fac- 
ulty tables were revealed to the pub- 
Punctual to the tenth of a 
second, William, the dusky head- 
waiter, appeared ringing the huge 
hand-bell as a signal to teachers that 
it was time for classes to be dismissed 
and that nourishment was next in 
order. 

Taking advantage of their privilege 
as “elders,” the faculty came slowly 
filing in to their places in the dining 
room. During the repast frequent 
conversation was indulged in which, 
judging from Mr. Stuke’s shoulders, 
must have been very humorous indeed. 
The teachers and their impersonators 
were: 

Mr. Stukes _. 


lie eye. 


..Margaret MecDow 


Mr. Tart =....2............ Ellen Walker 
Miss Finnell —......... Frances Lincoln 
Miss Jackson ............. Elizabeth Waltz 
Miss McKinney... ..Mildred Pitner 
Miss Daisy Frances Smith........ 


Mildred Jennings 

Dr. Sweet ac... Frances Amis 
Miss Lillian Smith......Margaret Hyatt 
Miss Hopkins _........ Josephine Walker 
Miss Davis.................Florence Perkins 
Miss Hearon.......... _...Frances Bitzer 
Miss Gooch .............. -_Mary Ben Wright 
William ................Lillian Middlebrooks 
The evening’s entertainment was 


| entirely in the hands of the senior 


class. The goodly amount of over 
forty dollars was realized for this 
class. 


Dr. McCain Attends 
Meeting of Synod of 
Georgia 


Plan To Move Seminary To 
Decatur 
Dr. McCain has recently returned 


from the meeting of the Georgia Sy- 
nod at Valdosta, Ga. The question of 
chief importance brought up at the 
session was whether Columbia The- 
ological Seminary, now at Columbia, 
S. C., should be moved to Atlanta. 
This Seminary is ninety-seven years 
old, and is one of the strongest theo- 
logical schools of the Southern Pres- 
byterian Church. The reason for 
moving it is that more room is need- 
ed. The members of the Georgia Sy- 
nod were enthusiastic about bringing 
it here, and agreed to raise $500,000 
to help with the movement. The most 
available sites around Atlanta for the 
Seminary are in Decatur. Mr. Willis, 
who is developing Ingleside, has of- 
fered twenty-five acres of land, and 
Mr. G. B. Scott has offered several 
different sites in Decatur. Before the 
Seminary can be moved, however, the 
Synods of Alabama, Florida, and 
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AGONISTIC 


Che Agonistic 


Subseription Price, $1.75 per year in advance. 
Single Copies, 5 cents. 


Published weekly. Owned and published by the Students of 
Agnes Scott College. 


Entered as Second Class Matter. 


STAFF OF AGONISTIC. 


Fes er een ns a ae Editor-in-Chief 


Assistant Editor 
Alumnae Editor 


Sa eR EEO EEO aD Athletic Editor 
Wie ae no eee! Exchange Editor 
eRe LON Re Re. | a Joke Editor 
ag sR sn Society Editor 
Y. W. C. A. Editor 
Day Student Editor 
Business Manager 
Assistant Business Manager 
Associate Business Manager 
Associate Business Manager 
Clyde Passmore Circulation Manager 
Wistiy, Feat eo ae es Assistant Circulation Manager 
Wihiriel! Bostman: «.<--. eck Assistant Circulation Manager 


Dorothy Keith 


Louisa Duls 
Elizabeth Henderson 


Emily Jones 
Ellen Fain 
Clarkie Davis 
Emily Spivey 
Eugenia Thompson 
Mary Palmer Caldwell 
Carolyn Smith 
Sarah Smith 


Margaret Edmondson 


REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
Elizabeth Henderson, ’27 
Edith Richards, '27 
Mildred Pitner, ’25 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 
Gilberta Knight, °28 
Mable Robeson, ’28 


Clyde Passmore, ’25 
Mary Heath, '27 
Julia Pope, ’25 
Miriam Preston, ’27 
Mamie Shaw, ’27 
Margaret Terry, ’26 


EDITORIAL 


Agnes Scott has dramatic clubs, debating elubs, literary and 
journalistic clubs, in fact every kind of college life to be found 
on any campus—except social life. We do not believe that Agnes 
Seott girls are so peculiar that they do not want social life on their 
campus. This lack of any form of social activity is more the result 
of the busy life we lead here. Classes, library work and college 
organizations take up most of our time. We willingly admit that 
this is both necessary and should take first place, for after all the 
aim of a college education must primarily be scholastic training. 
And yet, college training is an Introduction to Life and we believe 
society will play a part in the life of every girl in the future. 
Then, it is necessary that we have this social life on our campus. 


This lack of social activity is not the fault of the college admin- 
istrators or the faculty. They are willing and anxious to have 
more of it on our campus. The fault lies in the girls themselves. 
We think we are too busy; but how easy, and of how much value it 
would be, if we would give a few minutes more often, to becoming 
better friends with everyone. For therein lies a great fault at 
Agnes Scott. Very early in our college course we form our small 
circle of friends and we seem satisfied to spend all of our leisure 
time with them. These small groups of girls have so bound 
themselves together that they fail to see the wrong they are doing 
both to themselves and to the college. 


In the past the Lecture Association has attempted to have 
receptions after the lectures. We are sorry to say that Agnes 
Scott girls have not taken advantage of this opportunity to meet 
many distinguished men and women in an informal way. Few 
girls have come and, we fear, those few were more interested 
in the coffee than in the social success of the reception. We hope 
to have others this year and if possible to have teas for the 
faculty, students, trustees and friends of Agnes Scott in Atlanta 
and Decatur. The success of these will depend upon.you. Will 
you do your part? 


The dances on Wednesday and Saturday nights in the gym- 
nasium have been unusually good this year. The music is good 
and the girls have been coming. It is your chance to meet many 
girls and to forget your worries for a few minutes. Every girl 
and member of the faculty is invited and urged to come to the 
gymnasium and take part in the dances. You are missed when 
you are away and you are missing much of value and pleasure 
from your college life. 


In order that we may make a real beginning this year, we are 
asking every girl to do her part. It will be of value to you, indi- 


vidually, and it will give an added attraction to Agnes Scott. 


SENIORS ORDER CAPS, GOWNS 
AND RINGS 


The seniors are ready to assume 
their. badges of dignity! Elizabeth 
Blalock, class treasurer, has already 
ordered caps, gowns and rings. Soon 
we may see our dignified Seniors walk 
to chapel in scholarly garb; Investi- 
ture-cannot be far in the future; Soph- 
omore sisters may before long roud- 


ly wear rings inscribed with 1925. 
Only a former senior can fully under- 
stand the fever of impatient waiting 
and joyous anticipation to which the 
class of ‘25 is now subject; but we 
are sure that everybody else is al- 
most, if not quite, as anxious as the 
Seniors for the orders to be filled. 
Even a century of two weeks must 
pass in time, and then the Seniors 
will rise to the height of the glory of 
caps and gowns and rings! 


Alumnae News 


Great interest among the students 
has been centered on the marriage 
of one of our most popular alumnae, 
Lucile Little. Simplicity was the 
keynote of her lovely wedding cere- 
mony to Mr. Neal Morgan, of Heflin, 
Ala., which took place last Friday 
afternoon at the home of the bride’s 
mother. The bride’s only attendant 
was her sister, Georgia May, who was 
maid of honor. 

Mrs. Morgan is well known by all 
of the old students of Agnes Scott. 

“e is always remembered as one of 
the most successful editors that the 
Aurora has ever had. All Agnes Scott 
joins in wishing her future happiness 
and success. 

After the wedding tour, the couple 
will make their home in Heflin, Ala. 


MISS PRESTON HONORED; “POET 
LORE” ACCEPTS TWO POEMS 


Once more Agnes Scott voices her 
pride in the achievements of her 
daughters. And not only Agnes Scott, 
but the whole realm of song lovers 
may rejoice in this, for singular recog- 
nition has been given Miss Janef 
Preston in “Poet Lore.’ This maga- 
zine, published in Boston and devoted 
to poetry and drama, is to publish in 
an early issue two of Miss Preston's 
productions. These poems are “Inter- 
lude” and “Victory.” It is regretted 
that “The Agonistic” cannot give to 
Agnes Scott the first right to these 
poems, but we await with eagerness 
the issue of “Poet Lore” and wish 
Miss Preston all success in her future 
career along this line. 


CLASSES ON HAND-BOOKS 
HELD 


On Monday and Thursday after- 
noons at five o’elock in the lecture 
rooms in Science Hall, the members 
of the executive committee held class- 
es on the “Student Government Hand- 
book.” ‘The purpose of these classes 
was to enlighten the freshmen and 
the new girls as to the rules and regu- 
lations of student government. 

At each class some new phase of 
the student government requirements 
was iaken up and discussed thorough- 
ly. When the course was completed 
examinations were given by Frances 
B'tzer, whc conducted the classes. If 
any failed, the course will be g'ven 
again until all the new girls under- 
stand the principles for which our 
student government stands. 

This is an entirely new idea here, 
but one which we are sure is going to 
prove very beneficial. After having 
completed this course, every girl 
should understand thoroughly what is 
expected and required of her at Agnes 
Scott. 


MRS. RANKIN RETURNS TO 
CAMPUS 


Much to the joy of her many friends 
on the campus, Mrs. W. W. Rankin re- 
turned to Agnes Scott the early part 
of last week, after spending the sum- 
mer at the home of her parents in 
Thomasville, N. C. She, brought with 
her little William III, and his new 
baby sister, Eleanor. All of us know 
“Billy.” Why, we spent many a happy 
moment last year playing with him 
on the campus, or watching him run 
around in his little base ball suit. But 
most of us, I dare say, have not seen 
Eleanor yet. And there’s a treat in 
store for us, too. She’s a precious lit- 
tle girl, just as cute and smiling as 
Billy. As Mrs. Rankin says, “From 
now on, there’ll be a three-ring circus 
in East Lawn.” 


MR. MANDEVILLE ILL AT WES- 
LEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 


Mr. L. C. Mandeville, of Carrollton, 
Ga., who for many years has been 
a member of the Board of Trustees of 
Agnes Scott, and who never misses 
a meeting, is threatened with an op- 
eration and is at the Wesley Memorial 
hospital. Mr. Mandeville has a schol- 
arship at Agnes Scott, and assists 
five other girls here. Some of the 
students have already been to see 
him, and he would greatly appreciate 
as many girls as possible going to 
see him. 


NOTICE 
Will the girl who borrowed Mr. 
Cunningham’s hammer from the busi- 
ness office, with the promise to re- 
turn it immediately, please bring it 
back? It is badly needed. 


| EPISCOPALIANS HOLD MEETING 


The students on the campus who 
are Episcopalians were asked by Miss 
Leslie Gaylord to meet in her room in 
Boyd, last Thursday evening. The 
meeting was simply a “get-together,” 
held partly for the purpose of intro- 
ducing the Hpiscopal girls to one 
another and partly for helping new 
Episcopalians decide on the churches 
with which they wish to affiliate. 
Those present were a‘! agreed that no 

finite organization of the Episco- 
palians should be attempted this year, 
other than an informal committee, 
composed of chairman, secretary and 
treasurer, two other members and a 
‘aculty adviser, as the Y. W. covers 
most of the work that such a club 
would do. The first Sunday in every 
month, however, will be regarded as 
corporate communion Sunday for the 
Agnes Scott Episcopalians, and, at 
that time, each girl will be notified 
of the church at which corporate com- 
munion is to be held. 

After the discussion, delicious ice 
eream cones were served. 

Of the nineteen resident Episcopal 
students invited, ten were present, as 
follows: Misses Jack Anderson, 
Nancy Crowther, Lila Porcher, Ervin 
Baldwin, Charlotte Buckland, Cephise 
Cartwright, Joe North, Ethel Redding, 
Louisa Duls and Louisa Howard. 


FRENCH MAJORS ENTERTAINED 


Commissioned officers of the French 
department were hosts at a military 
hanquet par excellence, in honor of 
Major General Hale and Major Gen- 
eral Alexandre on Thursday, October 
the ninth, in the tea room. The of- 
ficial language chosen for the occasion 
was English but interpreters easily 
made it plain to the distinguished 
honor guests. In spite of the many 
years since the army was in France 
their assimilation of the menu was 


DAY STUDENT 
NEWS 


“We've got a rep, 
We've got some pep, 
Just watch our step!” 

At the general mass meeting of the 
day students last Tuesday it was 
shown that many plans had been 
formulated for definite progress in 
the work of the day students. Every- 
one present showed much interest in 
what was discussed, and also in the 
one who was putting forth the dis- 
cussions—Isakel Clarke, our president, 
whose leadership we are more than 
willing to follow. 

We are all invited to a “house 
warming” Friday, October 17, in the 
basement of the library—aim, to 
beautify our rooms there. Whoever 
is sewcially inclined, bring some cre- 
tonne and a thimble and help make 
curtains, pillows or table runners. 
Also if you have a rugged disposition, 
you can join those who will fashion 
varicolored rag rugs to cover the hard 


floors, 

We are still trying to increase our 
finances for our cottage, so please 
patronize the “Clipper Shop”, which 
will also be in the basement. It will 
cost you only ten cents to have your 
any-style bob trimmed—and it will 
give both the clipper and the clippee 
pleasure. Home talent is available so 
please don’t stray away to Muse’s or 
Monsieur Adolphe. The funds gained 
in these ways will go to building our 
special day student house which will 
have a charming club room, a cozy 
kitchenette and several places to sleep. 

Seaking of houses, it may be all 
right, but why is Marianne Strauss 
displaying her plan of a bungalow? 
She has it all mapped out, and she cer- 
tainly gets excited if you ask her 
about it! 

Mary Lynes must be a walking ad- 
vertisement for “3-in-1”. At any rate 


not difficult. This according to “La| with a pin, bracelet and ring all with 
Carte” was “Poulet a le Bechamel,} the same fraternity emblem she is a 
Pomme'’s de terre frites, Petits Pains, | tic all by herself. But since “her very 


Gelee de fruit, Creme Glacie.” Sinee 
all of us cannot take that in we should 
be relieved to know that the officers 
did. Place cards for the occasion 
were marked with hand painted 
French Majors, and entitled Major 
Manley, Bitzer, Wight, Edwards, 
Swan, Peeler, Perry and Hines. 


SENIOR COFFEE BEGINS 


For two Sundays, the Seniors have 
been enjoying their privilege of hav- 
in coffee in the Silhouette Tea Room. 
The first Sunday, Lucile Caldwell and 


frown is fairer far than smiles of 
other maidens are” we don’t at all 
blame the donor of this royal insignia. 


NEW ORCHESTRA “VIOLIN EN- 
SEMBLE” ORGANIZED 


For a long time the college com- 
munity has been in need of an orches- 
tra which could execute more difficult 
numbers than the ordinary medley 
orchestra plays. Miss Douglas, who 
is the head of the violin department 
at Agnes Scott as well as one of At- 
lanta’s most prominent teachers, has 


Martha Lyn Manley were hostesses; | Succeeded in organizing an orchestra 


last week, Isabel Ferguson and Mar-} of eight violins. 


garet Hyatt entertained. While coffee 
and cakes were served, the Seniors 
began the pleasant process of getting 
better acquainted, the purpose for 
which Senior coffee was instituted. 
Lower classmen look with envy upon 
this easy and alluring method of 
making closer friendships, and look 
forward eagerly to the day when they, 
too, shall enjoy this privilege. 

Beulah Davidson and Dick Seandrett 
added much pleasure and spice to the 
first gathering by their presence. 
Last time, every one had a better time 
because Miss Margaret Bland and 
Martha Lyn’s sister, Mrs. McFarland, 
were there, 

* all the other gatherings are a: 
enjoyable as the first two, the Seniors 
will indeed have a succession of happy 
Sundays to remember when their col- 
lege days are over. 


The name “Violin 
Ensemble'’ has been given to this 
group of musicians. Misses Pocahontas 
Wight, Gene Dozier, Sara Curry, Isa- 
bel Clark, Louise Lovejoy , Virginia 
Hollingsworth, Emily Erlich, Gladys 
Potts, Virginia Browning are the 
members of this class which meets 
once a week on Monday morning at 
nine o’clock. If you should happen 
to pass Inman Hal! about this time, 
you might think that you were listen- 
ing to the New York Symphony; but, 
instead, you are hearing local talent. 
Several concert numbers are being 
worked up, so it won’t be very long 


before this “Ensemble de Violins” will — 


entertain the Blackfriar audiences dur- 
ing the exciting moments before the 
curtain rises. It is with great antici- 
pation that the college community 
awaits the first appearance of its 
newly founded symphony orchestra. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 
gant buildings with modern conven- 
iences, full and able faculty. Courses 
leading to A. B. degree. Best ad- 
vantage in music and art. 


For Catalog, Address J. F. McCAIN, President 


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Y. W. G. A. 


Help Raise Our Budget 


What has the Y. W. C. A. done for 
you? 
or has its influence been such that 


Are you willing to give it uo; 


you want to keep it with you always? 
This is a question which every Agnes 
Scott girl needs to answer, for on 
your answer depends the future sue- 
cess of our Y. W. C. A. We naye a 
program this year by which we can 
help people other than our own girls, 
and we also have a program by which 
we can help our college, but we need 
your support. 

The work which the Y. W. C. A, 
plans to do this year requires fifteen 
hundred dollars, 

This includes: 

Our Missionary—Miss Emily Winn, 
a graduate of Agnes Scott in 1903. 
She is now in Korea. $500. 

A Religious Speaker—last year we 
had Dr. Campbell Morgan, the most 
famous Bible Scholar of the world, 
$100. 

Nacoochee Institute—We support a 
mountain girl there, $50. 

Loan Fund—To aid some Agnes 
Scott students to finish school, $50. 

Blue Ridge Delegates, $90. 

Conference fund, $100. 

World Student Christian Federa- 
tion, $10.00. 

Publicity—Handbook printing, etc., 
$115. 


Piggly Wiggly 


Agnes Scott girls are always 


welcome— 


Wiggle thru and help yourself. 
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT 


G. B. Spearman, Mer. 


Phone Decatur 1034-0385 
BURSON BROTHERS 
Expert Shee Repairing 


538 McDONOUGH ST., DECATUR, GA. 
DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING 


WELCOME 
Hewey’s Drug Store 


Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


For prompt service 
Phone 
Dec. 0640 


Jounson-Da is Co. 


Printers 


Atlanta, Georgia 


““cleaners’’ do. 


“THAT SPOT WON’T COME OUT”’— 


Seldom, indeed, do we have to resort to this 
overworked phrase to justify our work. Many 


Proper knowledge and painstaking care, impos- 
sible in the large plant, account for our success. 


DECATUR DRY CLEANERS 


Decatur’s Only Dry Cleaning Plant 


JUST CALL DEC. 0385 


Social Committee—Local entertain- 
ment, $75. 

Other local committees, $85. 

Equipment and emergency fund, 
$60, 

National board and other expenses, 
$165. 

Total, $1500, 

To obtain this amount each girl 
should give between five and ten dol- 
lars. Some need to give more to make 
up for those who cannot afford to 
give as much. 

The Y. W. C. A, has not failed 
you, so be true to your friend; help 
her out in her hour of neeed. 


DISCUSSION GROUPS VERY SUC- 


CESSFUL 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4.) 


we have an oversupply of cuts at 
present. The why of church was 
also spoken of, as well as our influ- 
ence in the matter of church going. 
These two meetings proved very in- 
teresting and beneficial, and the new 
plan for Evening Watch seems in a 
fair way to become quite a success 
this year. 

The general supervisor of Evening 
Watch is Emily Jones. Other girls 
have been chosen in each dormitory 
to lead the discussion groups. The 
girls from Sturgis, Lupton and Gaines, 
meet with the group in one of the 
dormitories. Every Tuesday night 
Miss Gaylord and Miss Hale meet 
with the girls who are to lead the 
services for the week. Josephine 
Schuessler who has attended group 
discussions at Montreat, has also 
been helpful in arranging material 
for the meetings. In these Tuesday- 
night talks the leaders are prepared 
to make an interesting and beneficial 
examination of the problem under 
consideration, 

The following girls are the leaders 
of Evening Watch: 

Main Hall—Margaret Keith, Vir- 
ginia Norris 

Inman Hall—Elizabeth Cheatham, 
Virginia Sevier, Ruth Livermore. 

Rebekah Scott Hall—Maria Rose, | 


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Freshmen Adyisees Attend Picnic. 


Pine Hill saw one more rollicking 
picnic when twelve Freshmen respond- 
ed “aye” to this summons from their 
advisors: 


“On Wednesday night when the moon 
is bright 

Would you like to steal away 

And exchange your book for a woodsy 
nook, 

‘nd an hour of song and play? 

We'll not have advice but something 
nice: 

A campfire’s cheery glow, 

Food and fun and stories begun 

Before we have to go,” 


Everyone joined in cooking the sup- 
per over a “sure nuff” camp fire and 
everyone had a “sure nuff” appetite 
for the piles of rolls served with 
bacon and all the trimmings that go 
with a picnic supper. Apples 
tomato and lettuce sand- 
wiches all vanished with characteristic 
frankness and utmost enjoyment. 

Then when the fire died down and 
imaginations fired up, each girl told 
her favorite campfire story or joke, 
and before returning to the campus 
and work, forgot school for a while 
in good old vacation songs and regu- 
lar summertime fun. 


Among those who will never forget 
that particular moon and those especial 
wieners were: Ruth Barnett, Cha-Hei 
Shay, Julia Napier, Nannie Graham 
Saunders, Ellen Stevens, Ruth 
Thomas, Caroline Essig, Eloise Gaines, 
Kathleen Gray, Josephine Houston, 
Vera Kamper and Helen McCorkle. 

While the others were enjoying the 
memories of this and other picnics, 
Cha-Hei Chay, our own particular Ko- 
rean student entertained the party 
with an account of picnics and how 
they are managed in her native land. 


and 
cookies, 


Evelyn Powell, Elizabeth Lilly. 
White House—BEmily Jones. 


LECTURE ASSOCIATION PLAN 


PROGRAM 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2.) 


is always on the lookout for conven- 
tions of this kind so that it may se- 
cure the best speakers at the least 
expense to us. 

The Atlanta Drama League has 
planned to have the Carolina Players 
give a series of performances in the 


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GIDDIE GOSSIP 


2 P. M. Thursday. 
Dearest Giddy: 


You ought to appreciate this letter 
a heap because I didn’t stay to eat 
my dessert so I could write you a let- 
ter. I’ve only got fifteen minutes 
though because I have Physics lab. 
at 2:15. Did you ever take Physics? 
If you didn’t, don’t because its a-w-ful 
and ’specially the lab. part. You sit 
and measure and weigh and measure 
and weigh and work and calculate 
and then come out with an answer 
either miles too big or miles too smail 
and get about 20 per cent error when 
you should get less than 2! I tell you 

I guess you have enough troubles 
it’s terrific. 
of your own tho’ without hearing 
mine—so Ill tell you something funny 
instead, 

They had a faculty take-off last: 
night—you know it’s really not the 
faculty at all but just girls in school 
that act like the faculty. I wonder if 
T’l! ever be able to act like Miss Jack- 
son or Miss Dexter—I guess I could 
tho’ if I’d just take enough History 
and Psych, and Education. Weil, 
anyway, there were two whole tables 
of faculty represented and you should 
have heard the conversation they had. 
Why, I didn’t know the faculty were 
like that. Do you know—they’re not 
so different from us after all because 
they talked about going to town, and 
classes and even told jokes. Imagine 
the faculty doing that. 

That's not as bad as what happened 
Saturday night tho’! I told you that 
the Freshman-Sophomore stunts were 
to be that night—well, the Sopho- 


mores won. I guess I’m kinda glad 
tho’ because you see this is their last 
chance and we can win it next year— 
or try anyway, 

Giddy, I wanted to go to the fair so 
bad this week I didn’t know what to 
do and I’m restricted (look in your 
next to the last letter to see what 
that means.) Some of the girls who 
went tho’ told me all about it—and 
about eating some kind of cotton can- 
dy. Have you ever heard of that? I 
guess its a variety of cotton they 
must grow somewhere down here that 
I haven't heard about. I wonder what 
it looks like. 

And Reba Bayless told me that 
there were seven things to ride on be- 
sides the boats and she rode on six. 
The only reason she didn’t ride on 
the other was that it was shut up. 
I wish they’d bring some of those 
things out here to A. S. C. ‘cause 
T haven’t had a ride since I’ve been 
here except on the Decatur Street 
car. And she—Reba, I mean—said 
they had some of the best dancers 
you ever saw, and that some Agnes 
Scott girl was thinking of joining 
them because dancing was such a good 
way of expressing one’s feelings, I 
wonder who it is, If I find out I'll 
tell you in my next letter, 

There goes the bell and I must 
hurry. 

Yours as ever, 
Aggie 

P. S.—One of the Freshmen thought 
Miss Preston was hike leader—I guess 
she got her mixed up with Miriam 
Preston. 


city this year. They may be asked 
to give a matinee for us. The com- 
pany is doing really unique and cre- 
ative work. It is made up of students 
engaged in graduate work at the uni- 
versity of North Carolina, who write 
and present their own plays. These 
are concerned chiefly with the folk 
lore of the Carolinian mountaineers 
and customs of the people, which may 
be thus preserved. If the Lecture 
Association can collaborate with the 
Drama League and get these players, 
it is felt that the college community 
will greatly benefit. 

Such are the tentative plans of the 
organization. Though ambitious, they 
are not impracticable, and if they are 
accomplished the students may ex- 
pect an excellent “program” through- 
out the school term. 


LITERARY CLUB HOLDS 
TRY OUTS 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3.) 


the club: Blanche Berry, Carolyn 
Essig, Nellie Richardson, Margaret 


Terry, Eloise Harris, Gilberta Knight, 
Ruth Liggin, Edith Richards and 
Martha Turner. 

On Friday night October 10, B. O. 
Z., torn between tragedy, adventure, 
and life on Main Street, and nineteen 
tryouts could not decide on their new 
There will be another meet- 
ing Tuesday. 

Both K. U. B. and B. O. Z. were 
very gratified at the interest which 
was shown in their work, and they 
welcome heartily the new members. 


members. 


BLACKFRIARS PRESENT “A MID- 
SUMMER NIGHTS DREAM” 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1.) 


Puck—Mary Freeman. 

First Fairy—Eloise Harris. 

Group of 
Peeler, Edwards, Stokes, Erlich, Shaw, 


Rickards Owen, Winter. 


Fairies—Weichebaum, 


———— nal 


M. Rich & Bros. Co. 


Are You 


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the Advantages of 


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You'll enjoy buying new and fash- 
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at these bona fide reductions which 
are to prevail only during the 


month of October. 


Here are only a few examples of the 
saving opportunities to be found at 


Rich’s: 


$19.75 and $25 Silk Dresses, $14.95 
$39.75 to $69.50 Silk Dresses, $28 
$25 and $35 Cloth Coats, $19.95 

$50 to $75 Fur-trimmed Coats, $44.95 
$3.50 to $5 Kid Gauntlets, $1.95 


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AGONISTIC 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Some people we know are so dumb 
that they think “Cellu-Lloyd” is Har- 
old Lloyd’s sister. Others we are ac- 
quainted with think that Arrow-Col- 
lars were made by the Indians. 

And still others that “Sing Sing” is 
a lullaby. 

Now what do you think about that? 


Newlywed wife: “You should drink 
a cup of hot water at breakfast for 
your health.” 

Newlywed husband: “I do, but you 
call it by a different name.” 


At the college dance: “Say have you 
tried. the new steps?” 

“No; are they softer than those 
chairs in Main parlor?” 


A Cold Biow 
He: “My brother is just the oppo- 
site to me. You’ve never met him 
have you?” 
She: “No, but I’d like to.” 


Miss Laney to Freshman (sternly): 
“Do you know why I flunked you?” 

Freshman (timidly): “I haven’t an 
idea.” 


Miss Laney: “Quite right.” 


One girl was heard to say, “My 
room mate is such a sound sleeper 
that the sound keeps me awake.” 


We All Have 


Overheard in library: “Miss White, 
have you a light that failed?” 


Brave 

Brown: “I won't pay extra for gas, 
just yank the tooth out even if it does 
hurt.” 

Dentist: “I must say you are very 
plucky. Just let me see the tooth.” 

Brown: “Oh but it’s not I; it’s Mrs, 
Brown. She’ll be here in a minute.” 


Agnes Scotter (to passing lady mo- 
torist): “Howdy, I’m going your 
way!” 

Passing motorist: “So I see, but 
T’ll get there before you do.” 


Science Note 
First Stude: “Does the moon affect 
the tide?” 
Second Stude: 
tied.” 


She: “Isn’t this one of the oldest 
golf courses in the country?” 

He: “What makes you think so?” 

She: “I just heard a man say he 
went around in 79.” 


Confused Passenger 
fumbling through his pockets): 
afraid I’ve lost my ticket.” 

Irate Conductor: “Why, man alive, 
you’re foolish, you couldn’t lose a 
ticket a yard long.” 

C. P.: “I couldn’t? You don’t know 
me. I lost a bass drum once.” 


“T’'m 


PRIZE PLAY CONTEST 


John Golden, a producer of Amer- 
ican plays, has devised a plan for a 
national prize play contest in which 
plays “clean as to line and situation” 
are to be presented to the public. He 
hopes to make a great success of this 
plan with Winchell Smith as direc- 
tor of the plays. 

The contest began September 1, 
1924, and ends December 31, 1924. 
It is open only to American authors; 
musical plays, tragedies and works 
built along a salacious line are bar- 
red from this contest. 

Since in Mr. Golden’s opinion there 
are no better judges of plays than 
those newspaper writers known as 
dramatic criites and dramatic editors, 
who have devoted their professional 
lives to the analytical study of plays, 
he has asked them to be the judges in 
this contest. There are 191 men and 
women who haye acknowledged their 
willingness to lend their aid to a 
movement which may help the theater. 
These people shall be formed into an 
organization under the temporary 
title: “A Coterie of American Play 
Critics.” 

Mr. Golden has promised that the 


three plays selected by the “Coterie” 


shall be awarded the prize provided 


and shall be produced by him within | 
a reasonable period, with due regard 
to the theatrical season. 

The prizes to be awarded are as 
follows: 

For the first prize play conform- 
ing to the conditions of this contest, 


there shall be paid a cash sum of two}| 


thousand dollars as advance 


royalties to accrue with a contract) 


for production with the following 
royalties; 

a. Five per cent on the first $5,000 
gross weekly receipts. 


b. Seven and one-half per cent on) 
the next $2,500 gross weekly receipts. | 
c. Ten per cent ‘on all sums over| 


$7,500 gross weekly receipts. 


For the second prize there shall be | 


paid a sum of one thousand dollars 
as advance on royalties to accrue 
with a contract for production with 
royalties 
value. 


For the third prize there shall be 


on the same percentage 


paid a sum of five thousand dollars |” 


as advance on royalties to accrue 
with a contract for production with 
royalties on . the 
value.—The Sun Dial. 


“« 


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Elkin Drug Company 


Extend to You a Cordial Welcome 


We are glad to have you with us and will be 
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same percentage) 


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on) 


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“No, only the un-| 


(nervously | = 


The Agonistic wishes to acknowl- 


edge the follow:ng exchanges: 
The Salemite. 
The Queen's Blues. 
The Sun Dial. 
The Mississippian. 
The Carolinian. 
The Furman Hornet. 
The Gamecock. 
The Mercer Cluster. 
The Davidsonian. 


DR. McCAIN ATTENDS MEETING 


OF SYNOD OF GEORGIA 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5.) 


South Carolina must approve of it, 
but it is very probable that they will. 

Dr. McCain made a talk on Agnes 
Scott at the meeting of the Synod, 
and also spoke at the Valdosta High 
School. While in Valdosta, he met 
a number of old Agnes Scott girls, 
among them Mrs. Turner, who is 
President of the Georgia Synodical, 
and Mrs. Scott, wife of the Presby- 
terian minister at Valdosta. During 
his stay at Valdosta, Dr. McCain was 
a guest in the home of Dr. and Mrs 
Breedlove, Mary Breedlove’s parents. 


ELEALS 


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Millinery 


A discount given on all purchases 
made by Agnes Scott. 


Freshie knows not 
And knows 
She knows not 


Sophomore knows not 
And knows not 
She knows not 


||| Juniors and Seniors. 


EXCHANGES | Athletic News | 


Hockey Managers Chosen 


Hockey has long since proved itself 
A. S. C.’s favorite fall sport. And 
this year it seems to be creating a 
greeater enthusiasm than ever. Each 
day numerous freshmen and old girls 
don middy blouses and journey to the 
back campus, where they practice 
dribbling and “pooch passing’—We 
may as well expect some “peppy” 
games this season. 

The class managers have already 
been chosen; and games scheduled. 
Belle Walker will attempt to lead her 
class through as victorious a season 
as they enjoyed last fall, in spite 
of the fact that the Juniors, with El- 
len Fain as manager, and the Sopho- 
mores, led by Courtney Wilkinson, are 
determined that the Senior class 
shan’t have the championship again. 
The Freshmen, too, are very anxious 
to win the greatest number of games— 
And who says that they won’t? Eliza 
Rainey, as class manager, is certainly 
planning a splendid team. But the 
victors can’t be determined until the 
end of the season; so we must just 
come to the games and see how they 
go for ourselves. 

The first game of the year was 
played Friday, Ocotber 10, by the 
Other games 
will follow in the order as posted on 
the bulletin board. Everyone come 
out and “root” for her class—The 


championship banner is a beauty! 


INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 
CLUB HOLDS FIRST MEETING 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3.) 


It was decided that the meeting 


|| would be held on every other Tues- 


day night at seven o’clock. The mem- 
bers of History IX are required to be 
present and the qualifications for 
membership will be considered by the 
executive board. 

The plans already announced are: 
An interesting speaker from Atlanta 
will talk on La Follette’s movement 
and platform at the next meeting. 
Before the first of November the club 
plans to have a dinner in the tea 


‘|}room and have three women from 


Atlanta, if possible the National Com- 
mittee Woman from each party to give 
her views on the coming election and 
give us some news of the past con- 
vention during the summer of tne 


|| Democratic, Republican and La Fol- 


lette parties. This plan was suggest- 
ed by Miss Hearon, who attended a 
similar one in Washington this sum- 
mer and said it was most interesting. 

The plans for the year are unusual- 
ly good and it is hoped that this will 


|| be the most successful year the club 


has ever had. 


Junior knows 
And knows not 
She knows 


Senior knows 
And knows 
She knows 


You will all be SENIORS in style when you wear 
SOROSIS SHOES 


Reflect the Good Judgment and Good Taste of the Wearer 


Black Patent Leather 
Sorosis Super-Smart 


$10.00 


A Smart Sorosis Black 
Satin Oxford. The new 
Venetian Cut-Work 
Design. 


$10.00 


A new Black Satin D’Orsay Pump 
Excellent Fitting 


205 


ie Dept. 


Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Co. 


And see f 
Muse’s New loor 
Beauty Shop wa 

on the sixth Six 


floor. 


AR 


, 


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The Sensation 
of the season— 


MADELON 
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the newer Madelon Coats ... . 
the smart Madelon dresses .. . 
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“Vogue”, are being shown at 
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These rare Dresses... . exclu- 
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certainty .... the straight line 
and the flare .... showing the 
smart simplicity .... and the 
artful use of color .... and 
just $39.50. The wool and the 
silk frocks that the clever mode 
demands this season. . . 


While the gorgeous Madelon 
Coats ... . of doeskin, fawn- 
skin, and the smart imported 
fabries . . . . luxuriously furred 
in mink, squirrels, muskrat, 
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but $69.50. 


And the MADELON ensemble 
suit is only $39.50. Here in the 
MADELON' Coats, Dresses, 
Suits—is unprecedented value! 
the greatest fashion-economy 
achievement of all time! 


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In one short, excited month, the word 
“MADELON” has come to mean three 
other treasured words: FASHION, 
ECONOMY, INDIVIDUALITY. With 
new creations every month. (October 
NOW.) 


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Drop in Muse’s now—for Oct- 
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Vol. X 


Inman Attic Visited By 
Spooks and Ghosts 


A large number of girls accepted 
the cordial invitation of the Senior 
Class to attend a Hallowe’en party, 
given by the Seniors to the student 
body last Saturday night, October 18. 

Now, a Hallowe’en party is quite 
distinet from all other parties in that 
its chief method of entertaining its 
guests is to frighten them. Queer, 
isn’t it? And the Seniors did some 


“tall” entertaining. Everything 
about that party conspired to create 
an atmosphere of “spook-ism.” To 
begin with, the guests were enter- 
tained in the attic of Inman, part of 
which was made to represent a grave- 
yard being artistically decorated with 
tomb-stones. The lights were veiled 
with black draperies; black cats hissed 
from the walls on all sides, and owls 
hooted overhead. The ghosts of the 
Seniors were all there (where the 
Seniors were, we know not) girded in 
the conventional white robes. For- 
tune-tellers’ booths attracted a great 
many girls, especially the love-sick 
ones; but perhaps the most thrilling 
part of it all was the famous “‘Cham- 
ber of Horrors.” What was in it? 
Oh, that is a secret too deep to be 
made public here. The proper sen- 
‘sation can be had only by visiting 
the Chamber of Horrors for yourself. 
To relieve the nervous tension of their 
guests, the spooks served stick candy 
and apples and peanuts later in the 
evening. 


Pi Alpha Phi Try-outs 
; Held 


New Members 
Admitted 


Nine 


Pi Alpha Phi tryouts were held in 
the chapel Monday night after 
prayers. Only old girls were allowed 
to venture quakingly through the 
back entrance to the chapel, stumble 
across the stage, mumble something 
Which in its original form had been 
a debate, get back over the stage with 
all possible speed, and rush into the 
open air with a feeling of infinite re- 
lief and a certain amount of exhilara- 
tion. Freshmen, however, will have 
a chance to try their luck before the 
school year is over. 

‘Those trying out were not the only 
Jones who had burdens on their shoul- 
4 ders, for when the tryouts were over, 
the judges had their usual battle to 
decide the momentous question of who 
the new members were to be. After 
much discussion the problem was set- 
jitled, and the following girls were ad- 
mitted to the organization: Evelyn 
} Powell, Nan Lingle, Eloise Harris, 
} Louise Harrison, Louisa White, Fran- 
ces Craighead, Courtney Wilkinson, 
Elizabeth Chapman, Roberta Winter. 

To the valiant comes the reward. 
Thursday night the new members 
were initiated into the famous debat- 
ing society. They were well armed 
for such a tiny ill, for had they not 
braved the dangers—nay, even the 
perils—of tryouts only a few days 
before? The constitution was read ‘to 
the new members, and a mock debate 
was given, the subject being “Re- 
solved: That it is better to be on 
the inside looking out than on the 
Joutside looking in.” The affirmative 
was upheld by Emily Spivey and Hel- 
én Lewis, the negative by Margaret 
Hyatt and Dorothy Keith. The deci- 
sion was in favor of the negative. 
The old members realizing that the 
new ones would need physical as 
well as mental food had provided 
tempting viands, so all ate, drank, 
jand were merry for the remainder of 
the evening. The new members went 
Jaway feeling that the prize was de- 
cidedly worth the effort. 


nt eee eee een eee ee ee ee eee —E—EEE——————— EE ee 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1924 


Calendar For Week 


October 20-25 


Night 


Stunt 
October 25 


Hoase 


Mrs. George B. Hinman, of Atlanta, 
will speak in chapel on Wednesday 
morning, October 22. Mrs. Hinman 
will speak on “The Necessity of Art.” 

October 13-26 is being observed as 
National Picture Week in America. 
In Atlanta the program for the week 
is in charge of the Atlanta Art As- 
sociation. 

Agnes Scott is fortunate in having 
Mrs. Hinman, who is chairman of the 
Committee on School Art in the Art 
Association, speak to us on Wednes- 
day morning during the chapel period. 

On October 23, Agnes Scott will 
give a reception for about fifty promi- 
nent Presbyterian women who are at- 
tending the Georgia Synodical. The 
faculty and officers of the college will 
be the hostesses at the reception. The 
reception will be held in the lobby of 
Rebekah Scott Hall on Thursday aft- 
ernoon from 4:30 to 6:00. 

On Friday, October 25, Miss Taylor 
will speak to the students of Agnes 
Scott during the chapel period. Miss 
Taylor is now giving a series of lec- 
tures at “All Saints” Episcopal Church 
in Atlanta. Miss Taylor is a most in- 
teresting speaker anda charming lec- 
turer and Agnes Scott is delighted 
that we are to have the privilege of 
hearing Miss Taylor while she is in 
Atlanta. 

Saturday night, October 25, Hoase 
Thirteen 
stunts will be given representing the 
work of the various organizations and 
clubs on the campus. Each stunt will 
be sponsored by a member of Hoasc. 


will sponsor stunt night. 


One-Act Play, “Joint 
Owners In Spain” 
Presented At Blackfriar 
Meeting 

The regular semi-monthly meeting 
of Blackfriars was held on Friday, 
October 17. The main part of the pro- 
gram was devoted to the presentation 
of a one-act comedy, “Joint Owners 
in Spain,” written by Alice Brown. 
The play introduces two old women, 


both inmates of the Old Ladies’ 
Home, and considered the worst 
“cases? in the Home. The one, Mrs. 


Blair, is robust, “high-spirited,” and 
overbearing; the other, Miss Dyer, is 
meagre, lachrymose, always injured 
and looking for trouble. Mrs. Mitch- 
ell, the kindly matron of the Home, 
decides to put the two in the same 
room, and, therefore, moves away Miss 
Dyer’s present room-mate, Mrs. Ful- 
lerton, characterized as “faded in her 
wits.” Mrs. Blair is so averse to hav- 
ing a room-mate that she draws a 
chalk mark down the middle of the 
room, and informs Miss Dyer that the 
mark is a partition, across which no 
word can be spoken. The ludicrous 
situations resulting give unique charm 
to the play. All the parts were well 
interpreted, and the play gave quite’ 
a lot of pleasure to Blackfriars. 
Cast: 

Mrs. Mitchell .... 
Mrs. Fullerton ............ Roberta Winter 
Mrs; Blair -222-... Pocahontas Wight 


Miss ters 2 2 id oe Louisa Duls 


Requirements For 
Written Work 


Attention of the Students Is 
Called to the Following 
Regulations 


At a recent faculty meeting the 
members of the English department 
presented these rules for the writ- 
ing of papers, which were adopted 
by all members of the faculty. 

The attention of every student, 
and especially of the old girls, who 
have become careless about the form 
of their papers, is called to these 
rules. It is urged that you follow 
them carefully because in the future, 
no paper will be accepted unless it is 
written in the proper form. 

You are specially warned not to 
write on both sides of your paper, one 
side only is to be used, and only blue 
or blue-black ink may be used. Please 
be careful to leave a space after your 
indorsement before writing the title 
of your paper. 

The following are the rules which 
must be observed in all papers: 
Standard Requirements fer the Form 

of Written Work 

(English Department, Agnes Scott 


College.) 
A, PAPER 
Use Number 6 paper, 8 by 10 
inches, ruled or unruled. Write 


upon only one side of paper. 
INK 
Write all papers not typed with 
black or blue-black ink. 
C. INDORSEMENT 
Fold the manuscript lengthwise. 
Holding the paper before you like 
a book, with edges open at the right, 
place your indorsement near the 
top of the page. Use the follow- 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) 


Cotillion Club Try-outs 
Held Wednesday 


Sixteen New Members 
Admitted 


B. 


Those of us who have attended the 
weekly Wednesday night dances in the 
Gym, or have gone into Inman Lobby 
right after supper, know how well 
a great many of our Agnes Scott girls 
dance. To some of us unfortunate 
ones, who have not yet learned the 
art of “tripping on light fantastic 
toe,” it seems next to miraculous how 
they keep step so well, and how they 
know just what their partners are 
going to do next. It really seems al- 
most as hard as a Chinese puzzle, 

We have all heard of the Cotillion 
Club, which was organized here for 
the purpose 
Every year new girls are added and 
Cotillion Club 


create great excitement. 


of promoting dancing. 
the annual tryouts 
This year is 
no exception, as can be judged by the 
long list of names posted on the Bul- 
letin board in Main Hall. 

The tryouts were held Wednesday 
night, the 15th of October, and those 
girls who were considered good 
enough dancers to be received into 
the club Josephine 
Emily Cope, Josephine Walker, Louise 
Sydnor, Dora and Alice Ferrel, Ruth 


are: Huntley, 


Harrison, Bryte Daniels, Roberta 
Winters, Bayliss McShane, Eliza 
Rainey, Margaret Gholston, Mary 


Cunningham, Mary Macy Huff, Kath- 
erine Johnson, Katherine Rickords. 

We are sure that they must be 
wonderful dancers, and truly worthy 
of the honor of joining the club, be- 
cause such a small group was select- 
ed from so many competitors. 

Here’s hopes for the best year the 
elub has ever had. 


No. 5 


Seniors Entertain College With|English Department Democratic Rally Held in the 
Hallowe'en Party 


Chapel Wednesday Night 


Dr. Carl Van Doren to 


Lecture Here Oct. 28 


Second Lecture on the Program 
For 1924-25 


Since the delightful by 
Stephen Leacock the college communi- 
ty has been eagerly awaiting the sec- 
ond speaker of tke program to be 
presented this year by the Agnes 
Scott Lecture Association. The an- 
nouncement, therefore, that Dr. Carl 
Van Doren is to talk in the chapel at 
five o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, 


lecture 


the twenty-eighth, will undoubtedly be 
received with pleasant expectation. 
Dr. Carl Van Doren is well known 
as a prominent educator 
phases of work: 


in four 
Teaching, editing, 
writing and lecturing. Although pro- 
fessor of English at Columbia Uni- 
versity and literary editor of the 
“Century,’ Dr. Van Doren is chiefly 
interested in writing and lecturing. 
He is author of “The Life of Thomas 
Love Peacock,” editor of “The Cam- 
bridge History of American Litera- 
ture,” editor of “Tales by Washing- 
ton Irving,” and author of “The 
Roving Critic,” a collection of short 
essays, sketches, and reviews. Con- 
cerning the versatility of our coming 
speaker, Glenn Frank, editor of the 
“Century” has said, “Dr. Carl Van 


Doren has one of the most interesting 


minds I have known. He has achieved 
scholarly distinction without dehum- 
anizing his interests or formalizing 
his mind. . . . He indulges in none of 
the stock tricks of the orator, but 
he is one of the most engaging 
‘talkers’ I have ever heard.” 

It is hoped, then, that a goodly 
number will take advantage of the 
opportunity of hearing Dr. Van Doren 
Tuesday afternoon. The subject at 
this time will probably be either “The 
Revolt Against Dullness” or “The 
New American Mind.” 


McKinney and Hermance To 
Represent Agnes Scott At 
Student Government 
Conference 


Miss Helena Hermance has been 
elected by the student body as the 
Agnes Scott Junior delegate to the 
Northern and Eastern Intercollegiate 
Association of Student Government, 
which will hold its annual meeting 
soon at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y., on the Hudson. This associa- 
ton has for its members practically 
all the standard colleges of the north- 
ern and eastern United States, and 
each college is invited to send two 
delegates to the meetings of the as- 
sociation the delegates being in each 
ease the president of student govern- 
ment and a member of the Junior 
Agnes Seott will, therefore, 
be represented by Misses Mary Anne 


elass. 


McKinney and Helena Hermance. 


The purpose of the inter-collegiate 
association of student government is 
to make student government more ef- 
fective in every college represented. 
The delegates from each college sug- 
gest topics which are problems on 
their own campus; and these topics are 
then discussed by the whole associa- 
tion, each college telling how, if at 
all, it has met the suggested condi- 
tions. In past years Agnes Scott has 
helpful 
intercollegiate meetings. 
The idea of requiring Freshmen to 

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received most suggestions 


from the 


Mrs. Carter and Judge Beck 
Speakers 


Mrs. Carter, of Carrollton and 
Judge Beck, of the supreme court of 
Georgia, gave interesting as well as 
instructive talks on Mr. Davis and 
the Democratic party, on Wednesday 
evening in the chapel. While neither 
Mrs, Carter nor Judge Beck are ex- 
perienced politicians, yet their very 
lack of this kind of experience some- 
how gave us a greater impression of 
the truth and honesty of their opin- 
ions. Possibly we are not all Demo- 
crats; nevertheless these two spedk- 
ers gave some good reasons why: we 
should be. ; 

Mrs. Carter first made an appeal 
to the women of Georgia to realize 
the duty and responsibility that comes 
with the privilege of voting—the 
duty of voting, and the responsibil- 
ity of voting intelligently. If we ‘are 
to be Democrats, then we should he 
Democrats because we believe in ‘the 
principles upheld by the Democratic 
party. The essential difference be- 
tween the Republican and the Demo- 
cratic parties, she pointed out, is that 
the Democrats believe in a strong 
local government in which the most 
people knowing the most about it con- 
trol the government; while the Re- 
publicans believe in a strong central 
government in which the least peuple 
knowing the least about it control the 
government. , 1 

Mrs. Carter, also, succeeded in im- 
parting to us some of her enthusiasin 
for Mr. Davis himself. His ¢arh- 
paign speeches, she said, are strangely 
reminiscent of those of Mr. Woodrow 
Wilson and voice clearly the same fyn- 

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Y. W. C. A. Give Stunt 
Monday Night ° 


Budget Tried and 
Acquitted 


The Y. W. C. A. gave a unique and 
interesting stunt in the chapel Mon-~ 
day night after prayers. The purpose 
of this stunt was the presentation of 
the budget. A court scene’ was the 
center of interest. The judge in cap 
and gown presided oyer the, sessian, 
while the witnesses sat in solemn, ar- 
ray on each side of the stage. At the 
left of the judge was the woe-begone 
prisoner, the Y. W. C. A. Budget, and 
opposite him were the awe-inspiring’ 
members of the jury. What an im- 
posing sight! pate Th 

First, the witnesses of the plain- 
tiff spoke at length concerning the 
detrimental influence which” the 
Budget exerted on the Aeriés' Scott 
campus. Big Dec, Little Dec, Atlanta, 
the Tea Room, and Clothes used their 
powers against the' ‘poot ‘defendant, 
who became more pitiful looking all 
the while. The Budget, however, as- 
sumed a more cheerful countenance 
when the witnesses for the defense 
arose. How could any jury ‘vomposed 
of mere human beings withstand the 
mighty stream of eloquent truth which 
issued from the lips of the Mission- 
ary, Nacoochee, Dr. Campbell Morgan, 
Blue Ridge, and Local Expenses? 
Weighty deliberation was not neces- 
sary on the part of the jury, for the 
case had decided itself. The unani- 
mous verdict of “Not Guilty’ (was 
speedily rendered. Much rejoicing en- 
sued, for the audience was heartily in 
sympathy with the defendant. 

May the budget be as loyally sup- 
ported by the students as it was Mon- 
day night by the counsel for the de- 
fense. 


Cast. 

Fi} (s {-{- Ellen Douglass Leyburn 
Jurors................ Sterling Johnson, 

Helen Lewis 
Burpee ey li Martha Lin Manly 
Big: Det 2.-i28-22snct Virginia Norris 
Little Dec .... Mary Mackey Huff 
Attanta =. (0001.4 Katherine Mitchell 


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EDITORIAY 


ts To everything there is a season. Not only is there a time to 
mourn and a time to dance, a time to love and a time to hate, but 
there is a time to talk and a time when talking is as unnecessary 
as it is thoughtless and annoying. When the posts of the chapel 
are draped in black and gold and blue and white, when silhouettes 
stare blackly from the walls, when the pianos are banging and 
the cheer leaders are twisting themselves into a hundred con- 
tortions and making as many wild gesticulations, that’s the time, 
girls, to yell. Scream as loud as you can, till your throat cracks 
and you pant for air, sing till the power of speech deserts you,— 
it’s the time for it. When the nine o’clock bell rings, though 
the frayed paper still hangs upon the posts and the bedraggled 
silhouettes stare in surprise at the morning light, keep quiet,— 
it’s the time for it. 


Of course what your best friend’s date said to her when the 
moon was shining on the colonnade last night, is all-absorbing, 
and naturally, you want to hear about it as soon as possible; but 
there are other places where confidences may be exchanged. Yes, 
a test in the day when you have five straights is the most dis- 
éoncerting occurrence in the world, but screaming the fact to 
your whole class won’t help matters; besides, the dinner table is 
really the only place to air a fine grievance like that. Jack’s 
special no doubt is thrilling, but shouldn’t communications of that 
sort be read and exclaimed over in the privacy of your own 
toom? Our chapel has no stained glass windows through which 
rose and amethyst lights stream, no vested choir singing softly 
in the distance, no high piped organ breathing “Holy! Holy! 
Holy!” in far-away chimes; but nevertheless it is a chapel, at 
nine o’clock every morning. A truly reverent spirit needs no 
painted glass for meditation, a worshipful heart no softly-singing 
voices to bring it quietness. They bow down and are silent. It 
is the time. 


MRS. GAINES ENTERTAINS| NEW JAZZ ORCHESTRA ORGAN- 


VIRGINIA CLUB IZED, 


Mrs. Gaines, with true Virginia hos- 


; : For nearly two weeks now the war- 
pitality, gave the twenty-three Vir- y % 


ble of the saxophone, the twang of 
the banjo, the rattle of the drums, and 
the foot-enticing musie of piano and 
violin have been luring students away 
from their much thumbed books, to 
steal a dance, while proctors thought- 
fully looked the other way. 


ginia Club girls a very entertaining 
and enjoyable time at her home in 
Decatur on Monday evening, October 
the 20th. Mrs, Gaines, also, is from 
Virginia and is a very enthusiastic 
member of the Club. 

Not only is she an enthusiastic 
member, but also she makes a dis- 
tinct addition to the list of famed 
members, for she has written a book 
of negro dialect poems from the in- 
spiration of the negroes of her child- 
hoot days in Virginia. During the 
evening Mrs. Gaines read some of 
which quite captivated 


All this disturbance was made by 
the new jazz orchestra, which is get- 
ting ready for the Wednesday and 
Saturday night dances, given in the 
gym. It is composed of the follow- 
ing artists: 

Elinor Bennett, piano. 

Sarah Curry, violin. 

Mary Reviere, saxophone. 

Mabel Robeson, banjo. 

Evelyn Powell, singing trap-drum- 
mer. 


the poems, 
her audience. 
Miss Stansfield gave delightful as- 
sistance in the entertaining by serv- 
ing punch, cake, and nuts. 
. The same spirit which originated 
the club and which will make it a vital 
part of Agnes Scott was plainly felt 
during the evening. 


The new jazz orchestra has played 
for one dance at the gym, a foretaste 
of what is to follow. Come out to 


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AGONISTIC 


Alumnae News. 


DOUBLE WEDDING AMONG 
ALUMNAE 


POETRY CLUB HOLDS MEETING 
TUESDAY 


Miss Preston Recites Folk Verses 


Tuesday night the members of the 
Poetry Club met in Miss Laney’s 
pleasant room for a delightful eve- 
ning. The girls discussed the honors 
which have come: to some of their 
Preston, Elizabeth 
Cheatham, and Margaret Bull—honors 
of which Agonistic readers have al- 
ready heard. Several charming poems 
were read and discussed, among them 
being Miss Preston’s 
Grace Augusta Ogden’s “Reflection,” 
and Susan Clayton’s “Edge of Au- 
tumn.” Miss Bland, Margaret Bull, 
Virginia Wing, and Elizabeth Cheat- 
ham also had which 
added to the enjoyment of the eve- 
ning. 

This meeting was especially inter- 
esting as several new members were 


numbers—Miss 


“Gloucester,”| in the other. 


contributions 
Mr. Thomas Harlan 
man, unexpectedly 
minister, Rev. J. P. Wardlaw, 
were united, much to the surprise of 
present. These, who are members of 
Miss Laney’s English XVIII class, 
were Lucy Winn, Carrie Graham, Vir- 
ginia Peeler, Anne McKay, Pocahon- 
tas Wight and Virginia Wing. 

Delicious vanilla and chocolate ice 
was served, while Miss Preston re- 
cited several folk verses, which were 
very popular. 


a double wedding. 


JERITZA SCORES SUCCESS IN 
ATLANTA 


One Hundred Agnes Scott Girls Hear 
Concert. 


For many years the people of At- 
lanta have looked forward to having 


The lightnin’ bug am a gay young 
spark, 

Jeritza here, either in grand opera 

or in the Civie Concert Series, This 

year their dream has been realized, 


But he ain’t never yet put out the 
dark! 
He make he way in a zig-zag flight, 
And he middlin’ sho’ he de source of 
light; 
But he ain’t by he self in dat, in dat, 
He ain’t by he self in dat! 
Others concerned the owl, the polly- 
wog and other familiar wood folk. 
The club is looking forward to a 
successful and profitable year under 
the leadership of its new officers, 
Elizabeth Cheatham, president, and 
Mamie Shaw secretary. 


and Maria Jeritza gave a concert at 
the City Auditorium on Saturday 
night, October 18, at eight-thirty 
o’clock. 

Madame Jeritza is a Viennese so- 
prano who is the reigning prima don- 
na of the Metropolitan Opera Com- 
pany, and is the most conspicuous op- 
eratic figure since the passing of 
Caruso. Jeritza has a repertoire of 
several hundred songs, which she calls 
her “artistic children,” and through 
them she unfolds the tenderness and 
love of her nature. This was Jeritza’s 
initial appearance in Atlanta, but she 
was received with such enthusiasm by 
the Atlanta people, that it is hoped 
she will come back again next year. 

Agnes Scott had a good representa- 
tion to hear this great singer, as 
about one hundred and twenty of the 
students and faculty attended the con- 
cert. 


NEW REPORTERS FROM THE 
CLASS OF ’28 


The Agonistic is delighted to have 
the following girls from the class of 
’28 as reporters for this year: Mary 
Riviere, Edith Brown, Martha Turner, 
Emily Kingsberry, Mary Crenshaw, 
Gladys McKinnan, Mary Jewett Doyal, 
Mary Junkin, Louise Girardeau, Eliza- 
beth Roark, Mabel Robeson, Mary Wal- 
ler Shepherd, Virginia Carrier, Caro- 
line Howell Nancy Crowther, Miriam 
Anderson, Janet MacDonald, Carolyn 
Essig, Sarah Glenn, Lelia May Jones, 
I, Lawrance, Sarah McFadyan, E. 
Grier, Betsy Davidson, Emilie Ehrlich, 
Louise Geslin Gilberta Knight. 


EDUCATION FOR WOMEN 


The September 28th issue of the 
Florida Alligator says that the enroll- 
ment at the State University this 
year rapidly nears the 1200 mark. 
Our enrollment at F. §. C. tallies 
somewhat the same. It is interesting 
to note that only a few years ago 
there were less than 500 young women 
here while at our brother institution 
down State, the number was probably 
almost double. 

The comparison now denotes but one 
thing: Education for women is be- 
coming more popular. We travel with 
the times.—The Florida Flambeau. 


METHODIST GIRLS TO 
ENTERTAINED BY AUTO- 
MOBILE RIDES 


BE 


On account of the difficulty of 
gathering all the Methodist girls at 
one time for any entertainment, the 
ladies of the Decatur Church have 
invited them in groups of about 
twenty to go automobiling. The first 
party is to take a sight-seeing trip of 
Atlanta and Decatur on Friday after- 
noon. Louise Harrison is in charge 
of arranging this group and a suffi- 
cient number of cars will be provided 
for a large number of girls. The 
Methodist girls are to be congratu- 
lated on having friends in Decatur 
who take so much interest in their 
entertainment. 

All the girls of this fortunate group 
are anticipating a lovely time and in 
addition will have the privilege of 
making the acquaintance of some of 
Agnes Scott’s best friends. 


the gym next Saturday and hear Eve- 
lyn sing “Red Hot Mama,” aided and 
abetted by the rest of the orchestra. 

Seniors tell them that they are the 
best thing yet heard on the campus, 
and Seniors are experienced. 


Misses Helen and Elizabeth Lock- 
hart, alumnae‘of Agnes Scott, the lat- 
ter having graduated in the class of 
28, were both married last Wednesday 
evening, October 15, in the First Pres- 
byterian Church of Decatur. The cere- 
monies were quite unusual in that the 
maid-of-honor and best man in the one 
wedding became the bride and groom 
Miss Elizabeth Lock- 
hart was married to Mr. Victor Man- 
get Davis, and it was to see this cere- 


mony that the guests assembled. Just 
ailer tnlS marriage, however, Miss 


Helen Lockhart, maid of honor, and 
Watkins, best 
stood before the 
and 


the guests, thus making the occasion 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 
gant buildings with moder conven- 


iences, full and able faculty. Courses 
leading to A. B. 


vantage in music and art. 


For Catalog, Address J. R. McCAIN, President 


Agnes Scott College 
Best ad- 


DAY STUDENT 
NEWS 


Presto, change! It as 
though Puck has waved his magic 
wand and transformed the erstwhile 
sombre rooms of the day students 
into a bower of cosy and attractive 
loveliness. The party held in the li- 
brary basement Friday afternoon ac- 
complished its twofold aim—that of 
making the day students better ac- 
quainted and of beautifying the rooms 
where some of their not-so-busy hours 
are spent. After the new curtains 
pwere at the windows, the gayly col- 


seems 


ored cushions were on the chairs and 
rugs covered up the former bare spots 
on the floor, delicious refreshments 
were served. Judging by the sounds 
of mirth that floated to the upper re- 
gions of the library this party was a 
huge success. 

November 8th is coming—and so 
is “The Stringem’ Girl,” the play 
that is written, directed and produced 
by day students. Advance press 
reports say this production is unsur- 
passed in beautiful girls, ravishing 
costumes and gorgeous stage settings. 
Large choruses proclaim the ability 
of the day students to excel in the 
art of singing and dancing. Mary 
Lynes, the author, is well pleased 
with the result of the tryouts and the 
way the work on this play is progres- 
sing. Don’t forget “The Stringem’ 
Girl.” 

No longer do the day students need 
to go with their craving for sweets 
unsatisfied, as “Ye Sweeterie’ our 
own candy shop will be opened in the 


basement of the library early this” 


week. Cookies and candy will be sold 
as long as they last, and this money 
will go to our cottage fund. The 
Clipper Shop will also be opened, so 
this coming week is a very important 
one. 


IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE AT 
PINE LODGE 


The athletic board has undertaken 
to make the Stone Mountain camp 
more attractive and comfortable for 
the Agnes Scott girls. They contem- 
plate buying bed springs, painting 
the building, repairing the floor, and 
equipping the camp with running wa- 
ter and wood. These comforts will 
add much to the living accommoda- 
tions of the place, and will offer prac- 
tically all the equipment of an at- 
tractive home for those who are for- 
tunate enough to spend a week-end in 
the woods. In order to accomplish 
this, it is necessary to increase the 
income over the budget, and for this 
reason the fee will be increased from 
ten to twenty-five cents for those who 
desire to spend a week-end in camp. 


Urehin: “Hey, kid, cut that stony 
stare, will yuh!” 
Prodigy: “Indeed, my geological 


survey was not directed at you!” 
—The Sun Dial. 


degree. 


Did you know that Agnes Scott had 
va Girl Scout Well, 
there was one formed during the latter 
part of the term last year; and this 
found favor in the sight of both fac- 
In fact, the or- 


organization? 


sulty and students. 
ganization proved itself so beneficial 
as to be made a vital part of our 
athletic life this year. 

The scouts are divided into patrols, 
with the girls who took thé course 
last year as leaders. Mrs. Parry is 
the she 
teaches the scouts to tie knots, find 
their way through the woods, and to 
do the many things that are valuable 
in out-door life. The girls also learn 
to observe flag etiquette, and the 
scout laws. Everyone seems delighted 
with the course, and really. enjoys 
these two hours of “gym.” 


general supervisor; and 


Scouting lessons, however, don't oc- 
cupy all of our time. Over the week 
ends, groups go out to Pine Lodge 
and apply the knowledge learned dur- 
ing the week by tramping about 
Stone Mountain and not getting lost. 
As winter approaches, they will also 
find opportunity for building fires and 
cooking meals according to the scout 
methods. 
was composed of: 


Last week's camping group 
Lib Clarke, Caro- 
lina McCall, Caroline McKinney, Ellen 
Douglass Leyburn, Georgia Watson, 
Courtney Wilkinson, Roberta Winter, 
Catherine Mitchell, Mary Davis, Mar- 
garet Edmonson, Sarah Shields and 
Margaret Rice. Miss Sinclaire chap- 


DEMOCRATIC RALLY HELD IN 
THE CHAPEL WEDNESDAY 
NIGHT 
(Continued frem Page 1, Column 5) 


damental principles of Democracy. 
Mrs. Carter is a great believer in both 
the principles of ‘the Democratic 
party and Mr. Davis. ' 

Judge Beck first brought before u 
the grandeur and nobility through 
which our Constitution was  origi- 
nated. This Constitution which estab- 
lished a system of checks and _ bal- 
ances, would save our government 
from the fate of the Roman and 
Grecian governments. 

He then made an appeal to the 
voters, against La Follette of the 
Progressive party who has made’ as- 
saults on our Constitution. La Fol- 
lette’s attitude during the war will 
certainly bring him the German votes 


Jounson-Da us Co. 


Printers 


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ATHLETIC NEWS 


Agnes Scott Girls 


We are glad to have you with us and will be 
glad to serve you. 


Elkin Drug Co. 


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eroned, and it goes without saying 
everyone had a marvelous time. 

The first hockey game of the sea- 
son was played by the Juniors and 
Seniors on Friday, October 10. Many 
boosters came out and encouraged the 
players with yells. Dr. McCain lent 


his voice to the cheers for the Senior 
class, and the stimulus was so great 
as to raise the final score, 6 to 4, in 
favor of the Seniors. 

On last Friday a “double-header” 
was staged. The Sophomores played 
the Seniors and the Freshmen the 
Juniors. This was the first game for 
the Freshmen, but they fought val- 
iantly and showed some good ma- 
terial. The line-ups were: 


Senicrs vs. Sophomores 


Keesler, ¢.f. -.2:ccccs:.002-:... Jacobsen, cf. 
B, Walker, r> i-seae2t..... Mo Ball ri. 
E- Thompson 1, —..... M Weems, Li. 
E. Walker, r.w. -....-.. M. Preston, r.w. 
Schuessler, lew. ............ Norfleet, lw. 
Spivey, ¢.h. .......... __ E. Albright, ¢-h. 
Blalock, shi, sass: Childress, r.h. 
E. Griffin, Ish. ............. E. Powell, lh. 
M. A. McKinney, r.f. ... Wakefield, r-f. 
Lincoln 56: + <p nome ecw Lynn, s.f. 
TAGE pigs 8 eee tn Lewis, g-2. 


Juniors vs. Freshmen 


Carpenter, c.f. _..... J. Anderson, ef. 
M: Zellars;;tt,; cet: Sydnor, r-f. 
Slaughter, If. -. . J. Walker, 1. 
Hermance, r.w. -.. .. Dobyins, r.w. 
D. Owen, l.w- . Rainey, l.w 


S. Johnson, ech. ...0222....2.2... Riley c.h. 
E- Jones, r.h. ...... D. McKinnon, r.h 
Bam Us scene Thomas, lh 
Redding, rf. -............-<. Saywood, rf 
Higess ict) Ae M. Crenshaw, 1.f. 
Bowers; 2:8. ---vcomex F. Brown, gg. 


of this country. He also advocates 
that the Treaty of Versailles be re- 
written or “thrown on the junk pile.” 
German papers are now urging all 
German-Americans to vote for La 
Follette. 


The differences between the Demo- 
cratic and Republican parties, Judge 
Beck pointed out, is that the Demo- 
erats believe in close construction of 
the Constitution, and the Republicans 


‘believe in the loose construction of 


the Constitution and the conferring 
of more power to the central gov- 
ernment. On the tariff issue, he says 
that the Republican party favors the 
protection of the rich and the taxa- 
tion of the poor. 


Judge Beck, also, is an ardent ad- 
mirer of Davis’ executive ability. He 
says that he even possesses the de- 
lightful attribute of being good-look- 
ing. 


Trio Laundry 
Dry Cleaning 


and 
Shoe Repairing 


“Atlanta’s Finest’ 


AGENTS 


Florence Perkins Anne McKay 
Margaret Debele 


.| girls have. 


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Y. W. C. A. 


The Y. W. C. A. is making an at- 
tempt this year to make the organiza- 
tion more democratic. In the past, 
due to the nature of our programs it 
has been impossible for many people 
to take part during the year. This 
year we have a new plan which, we 
hope, will bring more girls in touch 
with the Y. W. and its work. 

Several programs have been planned 
for different times during the year, 
in which several girls can take part. 
The first of these programs was 
given Sunday, October 12. The sub- 
ject was “Jesus’ Way of Giving.” The 
introduction was given by Margaret 
Tufts, then there were talks by Bee 
Keith and Nell Hillhouse, two of our 


new girls who~ succeeded very well 


‘indeed in furthering the already 
good reputation the freshman class 
has, and a talk by Margie Wakefield. 
All of which proved that the plan 
needed only to -be tried to prove its 
merit. 

The Student-Industrial Committee 
is hoping soon to get launched on its 
plans for the year. We hope to open 
up a broader field than has hereto- 
fore been opened, and hope to bring 
more of our college girls in contact 
with the industrial girls. 

You find them delightful 
friends and companions, with the same 
interests and concerns 


will 


that college 
The only difference is 


-| that they somehow missed the silver 
‘| spoon that was in the mouths of most 


of you when you came into the world. 
*» You need them, for they represent 
ideas and ideals which perhaps have 
not come to many college girls and 
which we need to face. They need 
you for you have many ideas and 
ideals which they will be the poorer 
for not having known, So if you are 
invited to visit the commission some- 
time, consider it a privilege and come. 


“T will love you forever.” 


He: 
She: “Midnight’s as late as I can 
sit up.’ 


What is real value 
in any purchase? 


Answer: 


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at a fair price. 


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with confidence 


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“AGONISTIC 


Thursday night. 
Dearest Giddy: 

If you ever come to Agnes Scott 
don’t try to make the hockey team be- 
cause if you should happen to make 
it you have to sign some kind of a 
pledge that won’t let you eat any- 
thing—not even a piece of candy—be- 
tween meals, nor any cake or any- 
thing. I simply couldn’t exist if I 
couldn’t go over to the tea-room every 


night between 9 and 10 to get some- 
thing to eat. 

Nothing very exciting has happened 
out here but I heard a day student 
say the other day that Juanita Grier 
won in the campaign for president or 
something, of the day students over 
Emily Zellars. She (Emily) was “con- 
ducting a vigorous campaign on an in- 
dependent ticket” (whatever that is). 
Anyway—the other girl won. 

Lots and lots of the girls spent 
this last week end away from school. 
I wish somebody. would ask me. They 
all said they had a fine time and two 
of them—Helen Farmer and Julliett 
Duncan—came back wearing frat 
I imagine that would be real 
exciting, don’t you? 


pins. 


And speaking of frat pins and such 
thinks, do you know that Mellie Zel- 
lars (that’s Emily’s sister) has SIX? 


At least somebody told me that and 
I don’t doubt that it’s so. Every time 


ENGLISH DEPARTMENT RE- 
QUIREMENTS FOR WRITTEN 
WORK 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


ing form: 
Mary Smith 
English 11, Section A 
October 11, 1924. 
Beowulf and Sir Gawain—A Com- 
parison 
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GLDDIE GOSSIP 


she has a date with a different boy, 
Wouldn’t it 


be dreadful if she got them mixed up 
some night? 


she has to change pins. 


All the Freshmen had to sign up 
in the exec room the other night that 
they would keep the student govern- 
ment rules and I went in with Emily 
Kingsbury. She thought you had. to 
walk all the way up to the table, and 
when she started up, Mary Ann (she’s 
the president of Stulent Government) 
said, “That’s all-right, Emily, just 
stand there at the edge of the rug.” 
And Emily said, “Oh, I know what 
you’re going to do—you’re going to 
pull the rug out from under me.” 
Can you imagine anybody saying 
that to exec? 

Giddy, there were some of the 
cutest boys I’ve ever seen out here 
last Saturday night. You see, more 
come that night than any other be- 
cause all the Freshmen can have dates 
that night. I might have somebody 
coming to see me sometime, though, 
because I’m going to a party one 
night this week at the Methodist 
Church and I might meet somebody 
that would ask to come. " 

Oh, yes! Talking about dates! I 
heard somebody say that Anne Mc- 
Kay had been asked for a date by a 
perfectly strange boy! I wonder if 
she gave it to him. I’m going to 
watch the date list every night and 
T’ll let you know if I find out. 

Lights are blinking and I still have 
my laundry to get before I go to bed. 

Oodles of love from, 


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AGONISTIC 


Intercollegiate 


News 


The AGONISTIC wishes 
knowledge the receipt of the following 
exchanges: 

“The Sun Dial”—Randolph-Macon 
College for Women. 

“Mercer Cluster’—Mercer Univer- 
sity. 

“The Mississippian’—University of 
Mississippi. 

“The Salemite”—Winston-Salem. 


“Queen’s Blues”—Queen’s College. 


to ac- 


“The Gamecock” — University of 
South Carolina. 
“The Purple and White’’—Mill- 


saps College, Jackson, Miss. 

“The Logrin”—Locust Grove Insti- 
tute. ; 

“King College News”’—King Col- 
lege. 

“The Flashlight’—Galloway Col- 
lege, Searcy, Ark. 

“The Davidsonian”—Davidson Col- 
lege. 

“The Ward-Belmont 
Ward-Belmont. 

“The Carolinian”—N. C. College for 
Women. 

“The Ring-tume Phi”’—Washing- 
ton and Lee University. 

“The Spokesman’—G, W. C. 

“The Hornet’”—Furman University. 

“The Florida Flambeau”—Univer- 
sity of Florida. 


—A. S. C— 


Hyphen”— 


The editor of the “Mississippian”, 
in order to improve and pro-journal- 
ism in his college, has organized a col- 
legiate press association which in- 
cludes a system of carefully planned 
exchanges. As we ourselves are en- 
trants for the first time in the field 
of exchange, we extend to our Mis- 
sissippi friends sympathy in their 
work and hearty wishes for success. 


—A. 8. C— 


The “Purple and White’s” maxim, 
*“Quae Fiant Ex Hoe Cognosces”, is 
one that is especially appropriate for 
a college newspaper. However, it is 
not more worthy of commendation 
than the splendid eight-page paper 
of which it is the motto. 


—A. 8. C— 


Locust Grove’s renowned twenty- 
eight-piece band has been reorganized 
for another year’s work and the pros- 
pects of gaining loving cups and win- 
ning musical contests again seems un- 
disputed. 

—A. S, C— 


The international relations club at 
Randolph-Macon has a new basis for 
Besides the 
old members, only juniors and seniors 
will be admitted in the future. 


—A. 8, C— 


For the benefit of students of the 
school of journalism and in order to 
give all students an insight into the 
part that big newspapers 
daily life, a series of lectures by 
eminent editors will be installed at 
Mercer this year. 
from Augusta, Atlanta and Hender- 
sonville, S. C., will be the speakers. 


—A. S$. C— 


membership this year. 


play in 


Prominent editors 


It is interesting to note that the 
“Salemite” has as a weekly feature 
in its paper a Lost and Found column, 
a rare but helpful portion for any 
college newspaper. 


She: “Did you say that your fa- 
ther was an engineer?” 

He: “Yes, I was his first wreck.” 

Happy: “The average woman has 
a vo¢cabularly of only 500 words.” 


HIKING CLUB ORGANIZED 


Among the new clubs organized on 
the campus this year is the Hiking 
Club, which is coming in for a good 
share of enthusiasm in the various 
athletic activities. Miriam Preston is 
the inspiring president of the club, 
and she promises numerals to every 
member of the club who goes on six 
of the eight organized hikes given 


during the year, and two individual 
hikes. The following is the list of 
girls who have signed up to become 
members of the club: 

Sara Shields, Lillian Clement, Mary 
Crenshaw, Margaret Wilson, Ruth 
Barnett, Irma Williams, Martha John- 
ston, Miriam Anderson, Mary Shep- 
herd, Lucy Grier, Dorothy Harper, 
Katherine Duncan, Elizabeth Grier, 
Martha Turner, Sara McF'ayden, Helen 
Fox, Eugenia Gobere, Martha Riley, 
Frances Hargis, Mary J. Doyal, Alma 
Metcalfe, Blanche C. Berry, Frances 
Brown, Mary Ray Dobyns, Mary Me- 
Aliley, Betsey Davidson, Grace Ball, 
Mary Stegall, Irene Lawrence, Helen 
McCorkle, Gwendolyn McKinnon, 
Edith Brown, Georgia Watson, Lucy 
Mae Cook, Mary A. Gill, Mary W. 
Perry, Rachel Hendelite, Emmie Ma- 
lone, Edna Ackermann, Louise Capen, 
Dorothy Owen, Josephine Waler, Eliz- 
abeth Roark, Louise Girardeau, Emily 
Kingsberry, Leone Bowers, Ellot Mae 
McLellon, May Reece, Alice Hunter, 
Hattie Gershaw, Dorothy Coleman, 
Judith Wilson, Martha Jackson, Lou- 
ise Pfeiffer, Frances New, Mary 
Heath, Nellie Richardson, Virginia 
Miller, Sara Anderson, Estelle Bryan, 
Ruth Owen, Mary Junkin, Eleanor 
Dunn, Mary Jane McCoy, Clyde Pass- 
more, M. Cowan, M. Crenshaw, Edna 
Volberg, Grace McLaurin, Elizabeth 
Moore, secretary. 


NEW MEMBERS IN B. 0. Z. 


Little and Hollingsworth Admitted 


B. O. Z. met Wednesday to continue 
judging the tryouts. The stories of 
Georgia May Little and Virginia Hol- 
lingsworth were accepted and B. O. 
Z. is glad to announce these girls as 
new members. The enthusiasm of 
planning for the new year and the 
added inspiration of new members 
promise to make this one of the hap- 
piest and most successful years for 
B. O. Z. All of its members give 
a warm welcome to Georgia May and 
Virginia, 


REPRESENT AGNES SCOTT AT 
STUDENT GOVERNMENT 
CONFERENCE 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


pass céurses on the handbook, for in- 
stance, came to us by way of the in- 


tercollegiate association. 


election of student government offi-| 
cers, relation of freshmen to student 


lation of faculty to student govern- 
ment the vetoing power of the presi- 
dent of the college, relation of day 
students, smoking, theft. quiet hours, 
touch with alumnae, and the like. 
Our delegates will, upon their re- 
turn, make a detailed report of the 


student body. 


WELCOME 


Hewey’s Drug Store 


Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


For prompt service 
Phone 


Thot: “It’s a small stock but think 
of the turnover.” 


Dec. 0640 


McKINNEY AND HERMANCE TO)) 


Among the 

q 
questions which usually come up for|'] 
discussion, are honesty, self-reporting, | || 


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government training of freshmen, re-|| 


proceedings of the meeting to the 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


No, Neither Can We. 
Eleanor Dunn (outside of math. 
class): You know Iam _ getting 
hopelessly balled up in math. We 
had a lesson on those awful “perambu- 
lators” today. 
them at all. 


I just can’t understand 


She: “Wouldn’t you like to help the 
‘Old Ladies’ Home’?” 


He: “Shure. Where 
live?” 


do they 


Miss Howson: “Miss Anderson, 
what is the unit of electric power?” 


Jack: “The what?” 
Miss Howson: “That’s right, the 
watt.” 


A man riding over Decatur roads is 
like a poor golfer. You are supposed 
to be polite and ask us why. 

Ans.: Because he’s usually in the 
rough. 


“Did you hear about the Agnes 
Seotter who thought the ‘Sea Hawk’ 
was a new kind of bird.” 


“What a splendid fit,” said Mr. 
Kelsey, as he carried the epileptic out 
of the tailor shop. 


We heard one girl say that she 
knew the reason they would not per- 
mit us to use “ponies” in Greek. The 
reason is this: “The subject’s so dry 
that a camel is needed.” 


He Made It Snappy 
“It’s no use,” said the girl explain- 
ing her ruined bob to her friends; “I 
tried to tell him, but he cut me 
short.” 


Fergetten History (Speaking of 
Lines) 

Noah and his tribe had just alighted 
on Mount Ararat. 

“What do you think of our sky 
line?” chorused the delegation of ship 
news reporters. 

The Ark immediately sailed with- 
out waiting for high tide. 


Saying of Solomon 
A “Quick Lunch” is a place where 
you save your money and lose your 
appetite; a tea-room is a place where 
you lose your money and keep your 
appetite. 


“T have a fine job now; I’m work- 
ing in a-shirt factory.” 

“Then how does it happen that 
you’re not working today?” 

“Oh, we’re making night 
now.” 


shirts 


“Pardon me; I stepped off on the 
wrong foot.” 
“So I noticed; the foot was mine.” 


Naples: “I scored the winning 
touchdown last Saturday.” 

Florence: “Why, how lovely. I 
didn’t know you played football.” 

Naples: “No; but I run the score- 
board.” 


PHOTOGRAPHS MADE FOR 
“SILHOUETTE” 


Hair curled—street dress—high-heel 
slippers—on Tuesday morning at 11 
o’clock, or Thursday at 9:30, or some 
such unheard-of hour for going to 
town. What can the idea be? Why, 
the photographer is here. The mu- 
seum on third floor Science has been 
converted into a studio, and ever since 
last Thursday, said studio has been 
quite popular. Every girl who wants 
to have her picture in the Annual 
is required to make an appointment 
with the photographer immediately. 
Prices for individual pictures are one 
dollar for freshman and sophomore 
pictures, and one dollar and a quar- 
A 
special warning to the seniors has 
Been given by the editor of the Sil- 
houette: Don’t forget to wear your 
high collars; the discomfort will last 
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The Choking and Killing of 
Lizzie Magrew 


In agony she gasped and groaned, 
She rent the air with heartfelt wail. 

The cruel sheriff urged her on 
Toward the dreaded county jail. 

She could not climb the last, long hill, 
Her feeble body shook and shivered 

’Till “stepped on” by his hard, hard 

foot 


Her very being quivered. 
She gave up hope in dead despair, 
For what was hope in world so 
dark? 


Her life was ebbing fast away; 
About her there was not a spark. 
She breathed with slow and painful 

gasps, 
With deep and heavy sighing. 
She sank down lower to the earth. 
‘Twas plain that she was dying. 
And yet the jeering, vulgar crowd 
In cruel jests and coarse, 
Cried, “Choke her, choke 
choke her!” 
Until their throats were hoarse. 
The sheriff wretch grew blind with 
rage. 
The mad mob made him dizzy, 
And so he killed her brutally, 
He could not drive a “Lizzie.” 


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single tones—the Winter sea- 
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And—before this rare inher- 
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1924 


No. 6 


Dr. Carl Van Dorin Will Lecture 
Here October 28 


Subject Will Be ““The Revolt 
Against Dullness”’ 


Particularly well known among peo- 
ple who read and think is Dr, Carl 
Van Doren, a foremost literary critic, 
literary editor of the Century Mag- 
azine and professor of English at 
Columbia University. Mr. Van Doren 
is to lecture here on the evening of 
October 28, at 5 o’clock, on the sub- 
ject, “The Revolt Against Dullness.” 

Mr. Van Doren has had an interest- 
ing rise in the world of education 
and literature. He was brought up on 
an Illinois farm, and attended the 
University of that state, where he 
won special honors in literary work, 
was class poet, and graduated in 1907. 
He was a scholarship at Columbia, 
which he attended for graduate work 
in English and Comparative Litera- 
ture. This scholarship was succeeded 
by fellowship including a year’s travel 
and study in Scotland, England, Hol- 
land, Germany and France, and then 
came an appointment to teach English 
in 1916. He was head-master of the 
Brearley School, one of the big pri- 
vate schools of New York, from 1916- 
19. In 1919 he resigned the work at 
Brearley School to become literary 
editor of “The Nation,” which he re- 
signed in 1922 for a similar post on 
the “Century.” 

With Mr. Van Doren teaching and 
editing have been only a means of 
livelihood, for he is primarily interest- 
ed in writing and lecturing. He is the 
author of “The Life of Thomas Love 
Peacock,” the translator of Hebbel’s 
“Judith,” and editor of “The Cam- 
9) bridge History of American Litera- 

ture.” He also edited “Tales by 
9 Washington Irving,” published in 1918. 
His latest book is a collection of short 
essays, sketches and reviews called 
“The Roving Critics.” He has con- 
tributed to the Atlantic Monthly, and 
at the present time is doing a series 
of monthly studies of American con- 
temporaries for the “Century.” These 
have been better received than any- 
thing Dr. Van Doren has written, and 
are to appear in book form soon. 

He has filled some important lec- 
ture engagements during the past 
year or so. He gave the Clyde Fitch 
Lectures at Amherst on Whitman for 
1923. He lectured five times before 
the Baltimore Council of Jewish Wom- 
en in 1922, and in the same year lec- 
tured for a week for the school of 
Journalism at the University of MIlli- 

(Continued on Page 4; Column 1.) 


Alumnae To Open 
Beauty Parlor 


Basement of Sturgis 
Transformed Into a 
Beauty Shop 


Do you want a shampoo? Does 
your bob need a trim? Then this will 
interest you. The Agnes Scott Alum- 
nae are going to open a real beauty 
parlor in the basement of Sturges. 
There will be appliances for sham- 
pooing, curling, manicuring, and treat- 
ments. The basement will be trans- 
formed; the school has promised to 
fix the floor; the alumnae will do the 
rest, and we will no longer recognize 
that dirty basement glimpsed as we 
hurry up the back stairs. 

When is this to be? Just as soon 
as a competent, refined woman can be 
found to take charge. 
is being sought. If you are really in- 
terested in this wonderful new con- 
venience and know of any such woman, 
you might help by giving her name 
to Miss Phythian. 


We all enjoy and appreciate the fine 
tea room, and ironing and sewing 
room which the alumnae have provid- 
ed for us. May this last project be as 
successful as the others. 


Even now she 


Calendar 
November 


| Memori 


For 


| the chapel Monday morning at ten 


In Chapel 


Students Hold Simple Service 
For Margaret Terry 


A simple, quiet service was held in 


o’clock in memory of Margaret Terry. 


Investiture and Thanksgiving) A sorrowful hush was upon the facul- 


Most Important Events 


The calendar for November is 
crowded with gala events. Begin- 
ning with the first day of the month 
and continuing up to the last one, the 
days on which things happen follow 
each other in rapid succession, with 
scarcely an intermission. 

November 1: 
tillion Club. 
dance will be given in the gym, where 
evening dresses are to be worn and 
where a good orchestra will play. 

Third, Mock Election: 
ence that the political speakers at the 
school this year have had will be given 
a chance to show itself at the mock 
election to determine how the majority 
of the students think about the lead- 
ing political issues of the day. The 
real election returns will be wired to 
the college as soon as they are de- 
termined. 

Fifth, Investiture: For the past two 
weeks, we have seen the seniors seur- 
rying across the campus in the direc- 
tion of Science Hall, and wearing their 
caps and gowns. The official right to 
wear their academic robes will be con- 
ferred on them at the Investiture serv- 
ice, at chapel, Wednesday morning. 
Don’t miss it. No charge. 

Eighth, Day Students Play: By ev- 
ery legitimate means which the intui- 
tion of woman can discover, the day 
students have been endeavoring to 
amass the money necessary to build 


vand-.equip: w -Pzey“Studente’ House: 


What will probably be one of their 
most fruitful efforts is the play which 
will be presented by them Saturday 
evening. 

Eleventh, Armistice Day: As this 
is Armistice Day, it is deemed fitting 
that we have some speaker to address 
us on the significance of the date. 

Thirteenth-Sixteenth, Y. W. C. A. 
Secretary: Are the days set aside for 
the National Student Secretary of 
the Y. W. C. A. Miss Grace Loucks, 
who will speak to the student body at 
chapel and prayers, and who will hold 
private conferences and group discus- 
sions with the girls. 

(Continued cn Page 4; Column 3.) 


Glee Club Plans 
Program For 
Year 


To Bring Several Glee Clubs To 
Agnes Scott 


“The student body and faculty are 
eagerly anticipating the fulfilment of 
the plans which the Glee Club has in 
view for the year. This entertaining 
feature of the college activities has 
planned for many concerts, will fur- 
nish the music when the Agnes Scott 
Club sings in Atlanta, and will have 
some of their concerts broadcasted. 
Many requests have been received 
from the neighboring towns for en- 
tertainments and the club hopes to 
make several trips. One of the most 
interesting features of the program 
for the year is the featuring of the 
Mercer Glee Club, November 15, All 
who have ever heard the program 
which this ¢lub offers will look for- 
ward with more pleasure to hearing 
them again. There is also a possi- 
bility of securing Trinity, Davidson 
and Florida Glee Clubs in the course 
of the season. 


The tryouts for the club were held 
some time ago and the following mem- 
bers were admitted: Mary Renier, 
Rosalie Wooten, Elizabeth Fuller, 
Emily Cope, Louise Sydner, Carrie 
Hynman, Edith Strickland, Mary Mill- 
er, Lillian LeConte, Martha Carlyle, 
Nell Hillhouse, Ruth Thomas, Edith 
Brown, and Hermione Jandon. 


ty and the throng of students gath- 
ered to pay a last loving tribute to 
the girl who only a short time ago 
moved among us. The breath of sad- 
ness pervaded the air. Nothing to 
do now save to come together in 
reverence and offer homage as a tok- 
en of our esteem for her. 

The whele assembly sang together 


Reserved for the Co-/| that old and comforting hymn, “Jesus, 
It is rumored that a| 


Lover of My Soul.” Dr. McCain led 
a beautiful prayer, asking God’s 
mercy on the loved ones left behind, 
that His love which passeth all un- 


The influ-| derstanding might comfort and heal 


the torn hearts of her family and 
friends. Several passages of scripture 
telling of God’s mercy and love and 
wisdom were read, and “I Heard The 
Voice of Jesus Say, Come Unto Me 
and Rest,’ was sung as a solo by 
Martha Johnston. Short talks made 
by some of the girls told of Mar- 
garet’s wonderful gift for friendship, 
her faithful work as a reporter for the 
Agonistic, her loyal service as one of 
those girls who went to the Wesley 
House to tell stories to the little chil- 
dren and play games with them, and 
her quiet, sintere, though unobstrusive 
support of all organizations and move- 
ments for the good of the college. 
That wonderful old hymn, “Oh Love 
That Will Not Let Me Go,” was sung, 
and the service ended with a silent, 
heartfelt prayer. 

All went away from the service 
downcast in heart because of the loss 
of a stuctnt- and fellow-schoolmate, 
yet a gleam of hope was there. Per- 
sonality does not die, and her spirit 
still lives on to show us the beauty 
and value of a life well spent. 


Georgia Student 
Volunteer Conference 
Meets At Emory 


Third Annual Meeting of the 
Council 


The third annual State Council of 
the Georgia Student Volunteer Coun- 
cil met at Emory University, October 
18-19. This council is composed of 
the officers of the union and a repre- 
sentative from each Volunteer group 
in the state, and is for the purpose of 
inspiration and discussion of the plans 
for the year. 

At the first meeting, on Saturday 
night, the reasons for having a Stu- 
dent Volunteer Movement, and the 
methods of the movement were dis- 
cussed. After this discussion, it was 
seriously felt that the fourfold pur- 
pose of the movement fully justifies 
its existence: 1. To challenge stu- 
dents to choose their life work in the 
face of foreign missions. 2. To lay 
equal responsibility on those not per- 
mitted to go to promote support for 
missions. 3. To relate a sufficient num- 
ber of properly qualified students to 
the foreign missionary boards. 4, To 
unite for mutual helpfulness those of a 
common purpose for “the evangeliza- 
tion of the world in this generation.” 

On Sunday morning the topic of dis- 
cussion was the relation of the state 
union, both to the group and to the 
individual. ‘In this discussion, the 
services of the union, both to the 
group and to the individual. In 
this discussion, the services of the 
union in inspiration, fellowship, con- 
necting the group with headquar- 
ters, and opening up opportuni- 
ties for service were brought out. 
The reasons for having a state con- 
ference were also discussed; the con- 
ference’s service seemed to consist in 
its offering of inspiration both 
through the programs and the con- 
tacts with students from all over the 

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al Service Held Hoasc 


Sponsors Stunt Night 


October 25 


Miss Ansley Taylor 
Talks In Chapel 


Biblical Scholar Lectures On The 
“Jesus Way” Of Living 


Miss Ansley Manning Taylor gave 
to the college community one of her 
most inspiring talks last Friday morn- 
ing. Miss Taylor is well known all 
over this country as a student of the 
Bible. In the talks that she gave in 
chapel she took for her theme, “Life 
as a Workmanship of God.” She said 
that our lives could be poems. The 
word “poem” is derived from the 
Greek and means work. Our lives 
can find their best expression in being 
“poems” for Christ. “Each life is a 
poem,” continued Miss Taylor. For 
our personalities to be the most pow- 
erful and pleasing to others, they must 
find expression in the “Jesus Way” of 
life. She told the story of a beautiful 
young girl who had given her life as 
a missionary in China, but on account 
of her health was obliged to return 
home. Just as she left to go, an old 
Chinese servant gave her a half a doz- 
en eggs as a parting gift. As the 
young girl said thank you, the old ser- 
vant bade her goodbye with a heart 
full of joy and blessed her for coming 
to China and showing “The Great 
Light, which lighteneth every man 
that cometh into the world.” That 
was the real beauty of the young mis- 
sionary, the beauty of her soul. The 
reflection of the heavenly power 
had brought sunshine into the hearts 
of others in China besides this poor 
woman. Christ had mac~ of her life 
one great poem—~a true workman ship 
for God. 

Miss Taylor began her career by the 
study of art. Then she heard of the 
Moody Institute. Though she was al- 
most at the point of success in her 
artistic career, she was so deeply in- 
terested in the study of the Bible that 
she left New York and went to the 
Moody Institute in Chicago. There 
she spent several years studying, and 
from there she was sent by the In- 
stitute as a speaker on Biblical sub- 
jects. She has travelled widely and 
is well known all over the United 
States. One of the greatest works 
that she has done is the founding of 

(Centinued on Page 3; Column 3.) 


Decatur Methodist 
Church Gives Party 
For Methodist Girls 


Interesting Program 
For Girls 


One of the many nice things about 
Agnes Scott is that each girl has a 
“church home”—some church in At- 
lanta or Decatur which she regards 
as her very own. In the course of 
the year, the different churches enter- 
tain in some manner the girls affili- 
ated with them so that they will feel 
less like “strangers in a _ strange 
land.” This year, “the season” was 
opened by the Philathea class of the 
Methodist Church in Decatur, which 
gave a party for all the Methodist 
girls at the college. Mr. Bayne Gib- 
son, the teacher, included in his cord- 
ial invitation Dr. McCain, Miss Hop- 
kins, and the faculty. 

The time was eight o’clock in the 
evening of Friday, the 17th of Octo- 
ber. The place was the basement of 
the Methodist Church. The way of 
getting there and back was by means 
of the cars which the members of the 
class drove. 

The guests were welcomed in behalf 
of the church by Rey. Eakes, the pas- 
tor; in behalf of the Sunday School, 
by Colonel Napier, the superintendent 
and “the man who keeps tab on Gov- 
ernor Walker,” and in behalf of the 
elass by Mr. Gibson. After every- 

(Continued on Page 4; Column 4.) 


Thirteen Stunts Presented 
By Organization 


Every graduate of Agnes Scott 
carries away with her a certain added 
charm which has been labeled Agnes 
Scott Spirit. Hoasc is the chief or- 
ganization on the campus that fosters 
and perpetuates this spirit. 

On Saturday night Hoase spirit was 
analyzed for us in its composite parts. 
Each of the thirteen members of the 
class of ‘25 sponsored a stunt given 
by the organizations of the campus, 
and with a magie key revealed the 
spirit of the organization to the pub- 
lie. 

Pi Alpha Phi revealed by a moving 
picture, the fact that it could accom- 
plish things of international import- 
ance—from a home run on the world 
court made by Daisy Frances Smith 
to the cancellation of the war debt by 
Mr. Tart. The Lecture Association 
also brings the students of the col- 
lege in contact with the outside world 
through distinguished and intellectual 
speakers. Through these speakers the 
students develop their brains and, inci- 
dentally, get food such as crackers and 
tea. 

The Glee Club gave evidence of its 
talent with two delightful choruses, 
“Lindy Lou,” and “Carmenia.” The 
Cotillion Club exhibited much grace 
in its performance of dancing, both 
asthetic and jazz. Blackfriars solved 
the problem of the pent-up expres- 
sions of the soul by giving vent to 
them in dramaties. 

There was no necessity of closing 
one’s eyes to believe that the beautiful 


strains of “Melody of Love’’ were com- 


ing from the orchestra of the Howard. 
Even the colored lights characteristic 
of the Howard were not lacking. 
The work of the Y. W. C. A, was 
uniquely represented through the me- 
dium of the wardrobe of a Y. W. C. 
A. cabinet member. First, came the 
serviceable sport suit for social serv- 
ice work; then, the dainty afternoon 
frock for the Y. W. C. A. tea given 
for the new students; next, the smock, 
suitable for wearing when making 
posters for Y. W. C, A.; next, Korean 
costume for a pageant given for the 
benefit of the Korean missionary, etc. 
Student Government with its presenta- 
tion of the life of Agnes Scott girls in 
92, gave us a full realization of what 
student government means to us now. 
The Day Students gave a demonstrat- 
(Continued on Page 3; Column 4.) 


Agnes Scott Entertains 
Georgia Synodical 


Many Former Agnes 
Scott Girls 
Present 


In order to suit the convenience of 
the guests, the date of the reception 
given by the officers and faculty of 
Agnes Scott for about fifty Presby- 
terian woman, who attended the Geor- 
gia Synodical in Atlanta, was changed 
from the twenty-third of October to 
Wednesday afternoon, the twenty-sec- 
ond, from 4:30 to 6:00 o'clock. This 
is a very prominent organization and 
Agnes Scott is proud of the fact that 
quite a number of her alumnae are of- 
ficers in it. 

The reception was held in Rebekah 
Scott Hall, which was made attrac- 
tive by brightly colored garden flow- 
ers. The receiving line was composed 
of the following well known members 
of the college community: Dr. and 
Mrs. McCain, Miss Hopkins, Mrs. 
Gaines, Miss McKinney, Miss Smith 
and Mrs. Sydensticker. 

Several Georgia Presbyterian sen- 
iors and juniors, who were acquainted 
with some of the guests, were also 
asked to assist in the entertainment 
and were: Eugenia Perkins, Anne Mc- 
Kay, Martha Lin Manly, Belle Walk- 
er, Margaret Debele, Evelyn Kennedy 
and Sarah Smith. 


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IN MEMORIAM 


One of the most wonderful posses- 
sions that a human being can have is 
a beautiful memory. This memory 
may be the recollection of some phys- 
ical aspect of nature—the splendor 
of a multi-colored sunset, the quiet 
stillness of a summer sunrise, or the 
peaceful calm of a rainbow after the 
storm—but our most beautiful mem- 
ories come from close personal con- 
tact with those we have known and 
loved, those whom we have called our 
friends. From a quiet talk with a 
friend one may go away with renewed 
strength and energy, ready to meet 
life’s battles again. 

One of the essentials of friendship 
is the power of understanding, the 
faculty of entering into another’s life, 
of sharing another’s joys and sorrows. 
In order to truly understand one must 
possess the quality of approachability. 
There are some people to whom it is 
impossible to go, but there are some 
who seem to invite confidence. These 
persons to whom we are drawn are 
willing to give of their time to others; 
they are never too busy to spare a 
few moments, never so interested in 
self that they cannot forget their 
own affairs in another's happiness or 
woe. They are the ones who really 
understand, 

To understanding, sympathy must 
be added. A person might under- 
stand and yet fail to have compas- 
sion. A friend is never thus; tender- 
ness and love are essentials of friend- 


ship. 
The most vital factor of friendship, | 


however, is an almost  indefinable 
something which is bound up in the 
spirit of service, in the ability to help 
another. If we can go to another 
with our sorrows and trials and feel 
sure that we shall not find deaf ears, 
if from a quiet talk with this per- 
son or from the strength of a fervent 
handclasp, we can come away with a 
new grip on ourselves, with a new 
lease on life, then we may know that 
this person is truly our friend. 

As we think back over the two 
years that Margaret has been with 
us at Agnes Scott, we realize how 
completely she fulfilled these require- 
ments of friendship. She was  en- 
dowed with an understanding heart; 
she possessed in a high degree the 
quality of approachability; she was 
ever ready to give of her time to those 
who needed her. Her sympathy flow- 
ed freely for those in trouble and 
distress. She had that most vital 
quality of friendship, the power of 
helping another to firm ground again, 
of rescuing one from the quagmire of 
doubt and despair and giving a new 
and brighter outlook on life. 

As the days go by the realization 
that she is no longer among us will 
come to us more sharply, more clear- 
ly, more poignantly, but at the same 
time we must come to know that her 
personality still lives in our midst 
and that it cannot die. Her influence 
shall dwell with us as a beautiful 
memory, and that memory shall be to 
us the wondrous example of a true 
and noble friend. 


AGONISTI 


Intercollegiate 


News 


The Agonistie wishes to acknowl- 
edge the receipt of the following ex- 
changes: 

“The Hornet’—Furman University. 

“The Watchtower’—Wesleyan Col- 
lege. 

“The Tiger”’—Clemson College. 

“The Sun-Dial” — Randolph-Macon 
Woman’s College. 

“The Technique”’—Georgia Tech. 

“The Cadet”—V. M. I. 

“The Petrel”—Oglethorpe Universi- 


ty. 
“The Salemite”—Winston-Salem. 
“The Carolinian”—North Carolina 
College for Women. 

“The Mercer Cluster’—Mercer Uni- 
versity. 

“The Ring-tum Phi'’—Washington 
and Lee University. 

“The Guilfordian’—Guilford Col- 
lege. 

“The Davidsonian—Davidson Col- 
lege. 

“Queen’s Blues”—Charlotte, N. C. 

“The University of Mississippi'’—U. 
of Mississippi. 

“Ward-Belmont Hyphen” — Ward- 
Belmont. 

ALS. C. 

The aerials for the radio broadcast- 
ing station at Furman University 
have been raised and are now sus- 
pended in the air over the top of the 
Alumni Hall. 

A. S.C: 

It is the general opinion that the 
students at a state university do not 
stress the spiritual side of their col- 
lege life. Recent statistics from Clem- 
son, the state college in South Caro- 
lina, prove the instability of this state- 
ment. Over 90 per cent of Clemson 
men are affiliated with some church 
and of this number the greater per 
cent are of the Baptist denomina- 
tion. 

A..S. C. 

The professor of biology at Mer- 
cer University has been asked to 
resign by the board of trustees of the 
university. His teachings on the 
theory of evolution are alleged to be 
in conflict with the religious views 
of the school. 

A, SAG: 

It has been said that the students 
in the American college have a small- 
er and less accurate vocabulary than 
the students of other comparative 
countries, especially Great Britain, 
France and Germany.—“The Ring-tum 
Phi,” Washington and Lee University. 

A. S. C. 

The Lyman Hall Laboratory of 

Chemistry at Georgia Tech is to re- 


enlargement. This is due to the fact 

that the size of the classes are con- 

stantly increasing at Tech every year. 
A; §. ¢. 

The Conservatory of Music at Wes- 
leyan College has arranged a series 
of artist concerts for the school term. 
Perhaps the most inspiring genius of 
this series will be Mischa Levitski, 
who is ranked among the five great- 
est living pianists. 


C 


BLACKFRIARS INVITED TO EN- 
TER INTERCOLLEGIATE 
CONTEST 


Northwestern University Sponsors 
Theatrical Tournament 


Blackfriars has recently been in- 
vited to take part in a national inter- 
collegiate theatrical contest, to be held 
at Northwestern University, Evans- 
ton, Illinois. The invitation came in 
the form of a letter to Miss Gooch, 
the director of Blackfriars, and was 
sent by Mr. Ralph Dennis, Dean of the 
School of Speech, of Northwestern 


University. It was a complete sur- 


prise to the members of Blackfriars, 
and was considered quite a compli- 
ment to the ability and reputation of 
the club. 

The contest is officially called the 
University Theater Tournament for 
the 1924 Cumnock Cup. The Cum- 
nock cup is a memorial to the late 
Mr. Cumnock, a professor of English 
Speech at Northwestern University, 
and at that time, a well-known lead- 
er in the movement to devise adequate 
scientific methods for teaching expres- 
sion. The tournament is designated 
as “a one-act play” competition under 
the auspices of Northwestern Uni- 
versity. It is open to any club or 
group of under-graduates in any col- 
lege or university; but not more than 
nine companies may compete, regis- 
trations being accepted in order. Pre- 
liminary contests will be held on 
Tuesday evening and Wednesday aft- 
ernoon and evening, December 30 and 
31, 1924; while the final contest will 
come Thursday night, January Ist. 
The judges for the latter are to be 
known men and women chosen by the 
contest committee. The decision of 
the judges, it is advised, will be based 
upon three considerations: Choice of 
play, direction, acting; and the win- 
ning company will receive the “Cum- 
nock Cup, and two hundred and fifty 
dollars. 

Blackfriars is now considering the 
advisability of entering this contest. 
The members are enthusiastic over 
the plan, believing it will be a first 
step in putting Blackfriars on the na- 
tional collegiate map of dramatics. 
But the question of financing the plan 
comes into consideration. As the con- 
test is to be held at Northwestern 
University, just outside of Chicago, 
the cost per member of cast will be 
approximately one hundred dollars. 
Since a play could hardly be present- 
ed with less than three actors, and 
the director, the minimum cost to 


ceive a one hundred thousand dollar | Blackfriars would be about four hun- 


dred dollars. The club, however, has 
no fear as to being able to raise the 
required sum, in case it is decided 
that entering the contest is worth the 
expenditure of so much time and 
money. 


Suspicious Character: “What am I 
suupposed to have stolen?” 

Police: “A ’orse and van.” 

“All right, search me!” 


A eS 


EDITORBAL 


It is embarrassing to know that Agnes Scott students have 
not advanced beyond the high school age, and that high school 
discipline must be enforced here in a standard college. A girl who 
has reached the age of going away to college, should have reached 
an age of discretion and of appreciation of privilege but it seems 
that many of our students have not reached this age yet. 

It is just that if one abuses a privilege, that privilege will be 
taken away. One of the greatest privileges an Agnes Scott stu- 
dent has is the use of the Carnegie Library on our campus. The 
behavior in the library for the past six weeks has been truly high 
school behavior. Groups of girls have met to discuss their choice 
bits of gossip, laughing and giggling in the meanwhile and dis- 
turbing the student who is attempting to take notes on study. 
Most annoying of all though has been the chewing of gum. There 
seemed to be a competition on to see which one could “pop” her 
gum the loudest. It is at least undignified and not the proper 
behavior for an Agnes Scott girl. There is one place and one only 
in which you should chew your gum, if you feel that you must do 
so, and that is in your own room. 

You have the privilege of signing up for a book for one or two 
hours but when your time is up, the book should immediately be 
returned to the desk. Every other student has the same privilege 
you have, when you fail to return the books promptly to the desk 
when the bell rings. You are keeping the girl to whom the book 
rightfully belongs from studying, you are also causing the girl at 
the desk unnecessary labor and annoyance. The girls who keep 
the desk are doing it for you; it is not work they specially enjoy, 
it is hard enough without your making it harder. When you force 
her to call for a book, or to come over and ask you please to be 
quiet, you are acting in an extremely selfish and “high-schoolish” 
manner. 

On account of this attitude among the students, it has been 
found necessary to limit the privilege of the library to those who 


are using the library for quiet study. If you are called down for 
misbehavior three times in one day, your privilege of the use of 
the library will be taken away for one week. “‘As you sow, so must 
you reap.” If you fail to return a book to the desk at the end 
of the hour and it has to be called for, a fine of twenty-five cents 


will be charged, and until this is paid, you will not have the use 


of a book. 


It is hoped that the reminder of your behavior will be enough 
and that your privilege of the use of the library will not have to 
be taken away. “Silence is golden”, should be your motto for the 


library for this year. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


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gant buildings with modern conven- 
iences, full and able faculty. Courses 


leading to A. B. degree. 


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DAY STUDENT 
NEWS 


DEATH OF MR. RANKIN’S FA- 
THER SADDENS CAMPUS 


The faculty and students were most 
grieved to hear of the recent loss to 
Mr. Rankin of his father, Mr. W. W. 
Rankin, Sr., of Charlotte, N. C. Mr. 
Rankin, Sr., had reached and passed 
the age of seventy, and was. still 
quiet robust. His death was very sud- 
den, being due to heart trouble. The 
college community wishes to extend 
its sincerest sympathy to the family 
of the deceased. 


FIRST ISSUE OF THE AURORA 
OUT NOVEMBER 1. 


“Book Nook” Department a New Fea- 
ture. 


The first issue of the Aurora, 
which is the quarterly publication of 
the Agnes Scott students, will be out 
the first week in November. As usual 
it will inelude short stories and poems. 
Everyone is looking forward to the 
Salmagundi, in which department the 
Freshmen essayists always shine. 

The editor hopes to make the book 
review department a feature this year 
and it will be called “Book Nook.” It 
will include reviews of several re- 
cent books and also briefs of other 
books which will be of interest to the 
students. 

Pride has always been taken in 
keeping in touch with the Alumnae 
and we expect to continue this good 
habit. In the first issue there will be 
a poem by Miss Margaret Bland, and 
two by Miss Janef Preston, who are 
members of the faculty and also 
almunae. 

Among the contributors this time 
are: Ellen Walker, Pocahontas Wight 
and Margaret Tufts. 

Everybody is requested to contrib- 
ute to the Aurora. Let’s make this a 
publication of, for and by all the stu- 
dents of Agnes Scott. 


MEETING OF BIBLE CLUB OCTO- 
BER 21. 


Interesting Program of Lectures 
Planned. 


In undertaking the work for the 
year at the meeting of the Bible Club 
on Monday night, October 27, the of- 
ficers for 1924-'25 formally began the 
performance of their duties. Sallie 
Horton, President; Georgia May Little, 
Vice-President, and Sarah Smith, Sec- 
retary and Treasurer, are leading the 
club this year and plan many inter- 
esting features, the most important of 
which is a feature program of lec- 
tures. 

The aim of the Bible Club is to give 
members of the department a broader 
outlook on religious ideas and mod- 
ern thought. Lecturers from Atlanta 
will speak to the club at various times 
and distinguished visitors from other 
cities will be brought to the college 
from time to time. 

At this meeting, Miss Mary E. 
Campbell spoke most entertainingly on 
“The Travels of Saint Paul as Viewed 
Today.’ Her lecture was illustrated 
with stereoptican slides and was a real 
treat. Some special line of Biblical 
study will be taken up at each meet- 
ing. 


THE LOST AND FOUND BUREAU 


“T can’t find my pen anywhere and 
that makes the second I’ve lost this 
month.” If that is your state, fresh- 
man, guide your steps to the Lost and 
Found Bureau, Any article lost on 
the campus (unless it is your averdu- 
pois from bear dancing in gym class) 
can be claimed at the Lost and Found 
Bureau in the basement of Main, 
from 2:15 to 3:15 on Tuesday after- 
noons. If you are fortunate enough to 
find something instead of losing it, 
the article found should be turned in 
to Virginia Sevier, 30 Inman. Any un- 
claimed articles are sold at the end of 
each semester and the proceeds given 
to the Athletic Association. 


HARD-HEARTED BRUTE! 
Proud Owner of New Ford (ad- 
dressing man walking along the 
road): “Tired of walking?” 
Hopeful Pedestrian: “Yes!” 
Pp. O. N. F.: “Fine, try running a 
while.” 


THE 


AGONISTIC 


GIDDITE GOsslP 


Thursday Night in the Library 
Dearest Giddy: 

It seems like I spend all my time 
over here at this library taking notes 
or something. I felt so good all day 
yesterday though because I couldn’t 
stay here—you see I kept a book out 
5% minutes over time and they told 
me I had to pay 25 cents for doing it 
and until I did I couldn't use the li- 
brary. As if I wanted to use their 
old books! I wouldn’t ever if Miss 
Jackson didn’t make me take so many 
notes. Well, any way, I didn’t have 
a quarter till today so I just stayed 
away. It did seem awful funny tho’. 

Giddy, I just couldn’t take any more 
notes tonight though, cause I've got 
some of the funniest thing's to tell you 
that you ever heard. 

Guess what one of the 
said about the exec room. You 
know that’s where it—exec—meets 
every Monday night and tries cases 
and they have a table and lots of 
chairs, a pretty rug and a lamp up 
there—and a cute window seat too. 
Well one of my friends—I’m not going 
to tell you her name because you 
might laugh at her—happened to look 
in there one day and later on when she 
found out what it really was said, 
“Why I thought that was the teach- 
ers’ rest room.” Humph! It’s any- 
thing but a “rest” room for most peo- 
ple—maybe she’ll find out some day. 


Freshmen 


Giddy, what would you do if some- 
body woke you up at 4 o'clock in the 
morning and pointed a pistol at you 
and said “hands up!” in a deep bass 
voice? Well, that’s what happened to 
Margery Speak and Olivia Swann the 
other night. They had been in town to 
a student volunteer meeting and got 
back about twelve o’clock. They 
couldn’t find Mr. White anywhere to 
get in and every window was locked— 
so finally they came in the little vesti- 
bule of Rebekah and sat down—they 
thought Mr. White would soon be 
along. And do you know they both 
went to sleep? Yes sir! Right there 
on the floor—and at four when Mr. 
White came he stumbled over Mar- 
gery’s foot and it scared him so that 
he got out his pistol. I bet he thought 
he was going to capture a dynamiter 
or somebody just as bad. Margery 
and Olivia were simply petrified, but 
they soon got over it— and if you 
just want to tease them say: “Oh! 
Margery” or “Oh Olivia—I hear you 
are going to move down on first floor 
of Rebekah soon.’ It’s too funny for 
anything. 

But (there goes that but again—l 
don’t care tho’!), the funniest thing 
of all is about Rachel Henderlite— 
(that reminds me of hippolite every 
time I think about it). She’s so ab- 
sent minded it’s pitiful aid the other 
day after she’d had gym, she was 


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go to Big Dec—that 
really means the big part of Decatur. 
Well, she changed one shoe and stock- 
ing and forgot about other stocking. 
Marion Daniel and Lucia Nimmons 
went with her and do you know that 
all three of them went to Dec. and 
back and were going in to supper be- 
fore they knew anything was the mat- 
ter. Then she was so embarrassed 
‘cause she’d worn one white and one 
black stocking to Dee. I hate to think 
what such absent mindedness will 
bring her some day. 

I'll just have to stop now, Giddy 
’cause Martha Lin has brought in a 
puzzle and I must work with her. 


Yours for ever ‘nd ever, 
AGGIE. 


MISS ANSLEY TAYLOR TALKS IN 


CHAPEL 
(Continued from Page 1; Column 4.) 


the “Hoot Owl Institute” among the 
mountains of Virginia. She has four 
workers and herself in this school, 
and it is rapidly making progress. 
This is only one of the many ways 
that she is making her life useful. 


Frohsin’s 


Says— 


Behold the subtle power 
of sparkling clothes that 
takes you gaily down the 
path of Happiness — of 
Life—and Popularity! 


CLOTHES for Agnes 
Scott Teachers and Stu- 
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Ensemble Suits, Coats, 
Furs, Blouses, Under- 
silks—The most bril- 
liant collection we have 
ever shown. 


Prices moderate—here. 


Frohsin's 


Correct Dress for Women 
WHITEHALL. 


30 


What is real value 


in any purchase? 
Answer: 


Good Style and Dependable Quality 
at a fair price. 


You may buy here 
with confidence 


We have served Agnes Scott 
students for over 10 years with 
good values and_ satisfactory 
service. 


Hats, Furs % Hosiery 


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Between Whitehall and Broad 


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Almonds Candies 


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| ing so you will be thinking about and 
| planning for it. 


HOASC SPONSORS STUNT NIGHT 


The Y. W. is trying to bring to the 
campus this year people who will be 
of real interest to the girls and who 
will truly be an inspiration. 

We feel that for those who heard 
Mrs. Hazen Smith, nothing more need 
be said in advertisement of the visit 


of secretaries to the campus. Mrs. 
Smith is a life work secretary and 
there have been many girls who had 
the tangled threads in their brains 
unraveled by her, so they could look 
into the future with a clearer vision. 

From November 13th to 16th we are 
to have with us Miss Loucks, who is} 
especially good on discussion groups. 
We hope she can meet with the leaders 
of our groups on the campus and give 
them some ideas which will improve 
our Wednesday night meetings. Miss 
Loucks’ theme is “The Way of Christ.” 
This fits into our Y. W. program in an 
ideal manner, so we hope to gain much 
for our services from her. 

We are to have other visitors this 
year too. It will be some time, but 
we want you to be thinking about 


welcome as they received at Wesleyan 
last year. The Student Volunteers of 
Georgia are to meet here in February. 
When they met at Wesleyan last year 
the entire college gave them a hearty | 
welcome. We want Agnes Scott to 


sister college. This is just a warn-| 


One of the best 
things about this conference is the 
fact that it brings Mrs. Smith back to 
us again. 

The Y. W. wants to be of real serv- 
ice to the girls. If there is anything 
in the way of a suggestion or criticism 
you have to make, it will be appre- 
ciated and taken jin the spirit in 
which it is meant, so come to use with 
any good ideas you may have. 


OCTOBER 25. 
(Continued from Page 1; Column 5.) 


ed explanation of the varied sounds so 
often heard issuing from the basement 
of the Library. 

The publications seem to always 
have the faculty of presenting some- 
thing new to the college community. 
They can even make such “hum-drum” 
things as reporting for the “Aggie,” 
taking pictures for the Silhouette, and 
writing poetry, seem quite new and 
original when done backwards. The 
Literary Societies contributed a rom- 
antic element in the revelation of B. 
O. Z.’s devotion for K. U. B., and of 
the love of young Folio for young 
Poetry Club. The Departmental Clubs 
equally well explained why some girls 
are so devoted to their major subjects, 
The Bible, Mathematics and Classical 
Clubs always have such delightfully 
entertaining meetings. 


The silhouette of the camp life at | 


Alumnae News 


FLAKE-COLE WEDDING. 


A wedding of much interest to 
Agnes Scott was solemnized at Con- 
yers, Ga., last Wednesday evening, 
October 22, at the First Methodist 
church, when Miss Elizabeth Flake, a 
graduate of ’23, became the bride of 
Mr. Frederick Winship Cole. 

The church was beautifully deco- 
rated. Preceding the ceremony Miss 
Pocahontas Wight gave a violin solo, 
accompanied by Miss Annie Johnson, 
and Mrs. Parker sang, “Until.” The 
bride was preceded by her brides- 
maids, Misses Sarah Flake, sister of 
the bride, and Clara Cole, sister of 
the groom. They wore dresses of 
lavendar Georgette, trimmed in ost- 
rich and carried pink Killarney roses. 
Annie Laurie Flake, also of Agnes 
Scott, was her sister’s maid of honor, 
and was gowned in pink Georgette, 
carrying roses of a deeper pink shade. 
The groomsmen were Messrs. Paul 
Fraser and Ernest Dowman, and the 
ushers were Dr. Ansley and Mr. Aus- 
tin Emerson. 

The bride came in on the arm of 
her father and was met at the altar by 
the groom and his best man, Mr. Shell- 
man Boston, The bride wore a dress 
of white chiffon over satin, trimmed 
in lace and seed pearls. The white 
veil caught with orange blossoms, 
made her brunette beauty even more 
striking, 

After the ceremony a reception was 
held at the home of the bride. The 
bride’s book was kept by Miss Frances 
Baldwin, of Conyers and about 100 
guests were registered. 

Among the Agnes Scott girls at- 
tending the wedding were: Pocahon- 
tas Wight, Annie Johnson, Mildred 
Pitner, Elizabeth Cole, Catherine Car- 
rier, Catherine Randolph, Edith and 
Phillippa Gilchrist and Sarah W. 
Cowan. 


Carrie Ceandrett was a visitor at 
the college this week. 

At the reception given by Agnes 
Scott for the Georgia Synodical there 
were a number who felt quite at home, 
being our own alumnae. Among these 
were: Mrs. J. L. Campbell, (Mary 
Jones) who now boasts of being a 
grandmother; Mrs. Frank Smith 
(Alice Coffin), who is Sarah’s mother; 
Mrs. W. A. Turner (Annie Kirk Dow- 
dell), president of the organization; 
Mrs. Lewis M. Gaines (Ethel Alex- 
ander), Miss Alexander's sister, and 
Mrs. Homer McAfee Mec MaclIn- 
tyre). It is also very gratifying 
to note that most of the speakers of 
the convention have been Agnes Scott 
graduates. 


Pine Lodge which is sufficient proof 
of the efficiency of the Athletic Asso- 
ciation, completed the list of stunts 
of the various organizations. 


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Here are only a few examples of the 


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Aggie’s Funny Bone 


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than getting a cut unexpectedly is get- 
ting two unexpectedly. 


Anti: “Why does a chicken run 
across the road?” 

Dote: “To get on the other side, 
you nut, but why not pull something 
new?” 


Anti: Tee Hee! Fooled you that 
time. He didn’t want to get on the 
other side. He just wanted to take 


some exercise. 


DR. CARL VAN DOREN WILL LEC- 
TURE HERE OCTOBER 28. 
(Continued from Page 1; Column 1.) 


nois. It is interesting to note that 
during the past year Dr. Van Doren 
has declined offers to become literary 
advisor to a prominent publishing 
house, chief critic on a leading news- 
paper and president of a state uni- 
versity. He has declined all of these 
with thanks, for he feels that his 
“forte” is writing and lecturing. 

His position in the literary world as 
an eminent critic is firmly established. 
This was evidenced in the recent page 
article in the New York Times Book 
Review, in a very interesting sketch 
of Mr. Van Doren, written by Henry 
James Forman. The review has to do 
with the publication of “Many Minds,” 
Mr. Van Doren’s latest book, yet it 
reveals a most interesting insight into 
the mind and abilities of Mr. Van 
Doren. Interesting paragraphs are 
quoted here: 

“As a historian of the contempor- 
ary American novel he is unsurpassed. 
As a eritie of current forms and au- 
thors no commentator has shown a 
saner insight. He has of late brought 


a new self-respect to American writ- 
ers. No longer need they wait for 
foreign endorsement before being un- 
derstood, as Poe was obliged to wait, 
and Whitman. He has not even 
shrunk, as witness “Many Minds,” 
from pronouncing judgment upon him- 
self. Now, he speaks of withdrawing 
to other provinces. Where is the au- 
thority that can prevent this mis- 
fortune! Could the Republican party 
contrive it? Or, would a round-robin 
signed by all American authors be 
more efficacious ?” 


“There is something disarming 


about Van Doren’s impersonality—dis- | 


arming and cool, but seldom cold. An 
Emersonian note often creeps into his 
sentences, If there is no overwhelm- 
ing enthusiasm in them, there is never 
any venom. He is virtually never 
lyrical, but when he begins to finger 
the wealth of a talent the pulse of 
his writings quickens. But he never 
passes dross for gold. His touch for 


the counterfeit is as unerring as a 
banker is said to be. He is never cruel 
because he is never personal. Even in 
his paper upon himself, the last in the 
book, he is, allowing for conventional 
modesty, as just and as candid as 
he might be to a friend—or to an 
enemy.” 


“And now, as I have said, he speaks 
of retiring to other provinces. One 
wishes that perorations were cus- 
tomary in book reviews as they still 
are in political speeches. Then one 
might in a tone of appeal have said: 

“Gentlemen, make your steel, mine 
your coal, legislate about hogs, wheat 
and oil. But literature is the soul of 
a country. Without a literature all 
these other things are of worth to the 
economic man alone, a dead abstrac- 
tion. And to have a great literature 
and a vital one, vital critics are neces- 
sary. So, if Carl Van Doren refuses 
any longer to serve as a critic, he must 
be drafted for the service.” 


Trio Laundry 


Dry Cleaning 


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Shoe Repairing 


“Atlanta's Finest’ 


AGENTS 


Flerence Perkins Anne McKay 
Margaret Debele 


Arnold: “Why do they put handles 
on both sides of a bouillon cup?” 


Bennett: “Sap! Don’t you suppose 
they have to provide for left-handed 


| guests too?” 


Miss Laney: “What do you mean by 
saying Benedict Arnold was a jan- 
itor?” 

Marg. Speake: “The book says that 
after his exile he spent the rest of his 
life in abasement.” 


GEORGIA STUDENT VOLUNTEER 
CONFERENCE MEETS AT 
EMORY. 

(Continued from Page 1; Column 3.) 


state; in its imterpretation of the 
movement to the entertaining college, 
to the colleges represented, and to the 
Student Volunteers; and in its oppor- 
tunity for representative discussion 
groups. The question of State Con- 
ferences is of especial interest to 
Agnes Scott because of the fact that 
she is to be hostess to*the 1925 con- 
ference to be held February 16-18. 
Plans are being made to center the 
conference about two big speak- 
ers, one a specialist in missions, the 
other an authority on international 
affairs, with many discussion groups 
led by students. 

On Sunday afternoon there was an- 
other discussion on the importance of 
Student Volunteer local groups; on 
Sunday night, discussions of the rea- 
sons why Student Volunteers do not all 
reach the mission field, and of the 
problems of individual volunteers, fol- 
lowed by reports from the officers. 

The election of members to the 
Sixth National Council, meeting at 
Yonkers, N. Y., December 27-31, was 
also a feature of the meeting. Mr. 
Marvin Harper of Emory, and Miss 
Verna Scarborough of G. S. W. C. 
were elected, but Agnes Scott will be 
especially interested to hear that Nan- 
ey Lou Knight was chosen alternate 
for Miss Scarborough. 

The personnel of the council was as 
follows: (1) The executive committee 
of the union, i. e.: Oma Goodson, G. S. 
C. W., President; G. C. Baker, Emory, 
Vice-President; Mary Bonner, State 
Normal, Secretary; Mary Goodrich, 
Atlanta, Out-of-College Secretary; 
Marvin Harper, Emory, and Emmie 
Ficklen, Washington, Ga., National 
Council Members; Miriam Spruell, La- 
Grange College, Poster Chairman; 
Margery Speake, Agnes Scott, Editor; 
Phil Narmore, Georgia Tech, Publica- 
tion Manager. (2) Group leaders from 
the Georgia Colleges, i. e. Lois Wal- 
don, State Normal; Mary Lou Barn- 
well, Wesleyan; Mary Appleby, Short- 
er; J. C. Thoroughman, Emory; Mer- 
lin Bishop, South Georgia College; 
Olivia Swann, Agnes Scott. 


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Pine Lodge is rivaling the Library 
in its popularity. However, the charm 
of the one lies in its ability to fill 
notebooks while the other scores on its 
pleasure producing element. Not a 
week-end passes but that a group of 
girls find themselves enjoying the 
life that only a camp can offer. Never- 
theless even a hut can’t continue its 
existence without some upkeep. First 
we must “save the surface and save 
all,’ by applying a coat of DeVoe 
paint. Then wood is needed for the 
fires this winter; and a water sup- 
ply, in the form of a pump, is to be 
installed. So in order to do these 
things the Athletic Association has 
decided to charge each girl a fee of 
25 cents for the use of the camp over 
a week-end. 


Polly Stone and Frances Amis, 
seniors of last year, chaperoned a 
party out on Saturday, October 18. 
The girls who went were: Spivey, 
Ann McKay, Ella Smith, Peg Hyatt, 


ATHLETIC NEWS 


Izzy Ferguson, Jo Huntly, Dot and | 


Bee Keith, Mary Makey Huff and 
Ruth Johnston. Of course they had 
a grand time; they would have to with 
Frances and Polly along. 

Last week's campers were: Walker 
Fletcher, Ruth Harrison, Tootsie 
Janes, Jo Douglas, Toodles Green, 
Dora and Aliee Ferrell, Mellie Zellars, 
Louise Buchanan and Emily Zellars. 
Miss Bland chaperoned and Helena 
Dismukes came out as the guest of 
Dora. The party didn’t leave school 
until Sunday morning because every- 
one stayed to see the stunts Satur- 
day night; but my, what they did 
crowd into that one day. Mr. and 
Mrs. Zellars came out for dinner. They 
entered heartily into the spirit of the 
camp and ate what the girls prepared 
with much enthusiasm. Everyone en- 
joyed having Emily's and Mellie’s 
father and mother, and we hope they 
will come again, 


CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER. 
(Continued from Page 1; Column 2.) 


Fifteenth, Mercer Glee Club: Tent- 
ative arrangements have been made 
for a performance of the Mercer Glee 
Club on this evening. If the Mercer 
boys are anything like as good as they 


were last year, they will furnish us 
with superlative entertainment. 


Seventeenth: Hurrah! 
month to vacation. 

Twenty-seventh, Thanksgiving Day: 
During the morning, there will be a 
hockey game to decide the champion- 
ship; at six o’clock there will be a 
formal dinner in each of the dining 
rooms, followed by a dance in the 
gym, 

Twenty-ninth, Blackfriar Plays: 
Three one-act plays will be presented 
by Blackfriars. 


One more 


This terminates the definite ar- 
rangements for the month. 

In addition, it is planned to have 
some noted religious speakers here 
for about a week during November. 
Last year and the year before last, the 
college was fortunate in having Dr. 
Campbell Morgan. It is hoped that this 
fall’s speaker will be equally as good. 

Up to Thanksgiving Day, there will 
be hockey games on Friday after- 
noons. It isn’t known just what teanis 
will play, but the contests will be in- 
teresting and exciting if they are as 
hard fought as they have been this 
season. 


If one glances over the calendar she 
will see that there is only one Satur- 


day during the month which is not || 


reserved, and it no doubt will be, by 
the time this leaves the press. 


More than 


20 


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Priced at 


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Agnes Scott Girls 


Elkin Drug Company 


Extend to You a Cordial Welcome 


We are glad to have you with us and will be 
glad to serve you. 


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DECATUR METHODIST CHURCH 
GIVES PARTY FOR METH- 


ODIST GIRLS. 
(Continued from Page 1; Cclumn 4.) 


one had met everyone else, all joined 
in singing old favorites, like, “Carry 
Me Back to Ole Virginny.”” Then a 
trio from Atlanta played several se- 
lections on their string instruments, 
Mrs. Hudson, who was hired by Uncle 
Sam during the war to keep up the 
morale of the soldiers by her enter- 
tainment, was next introduced to the 
guests. Her personality was very 
pleasing, and her singing and playing 
were repeatedly encored. 

The rooms were decorated with pur- 
ple and white bunting and purple and 
white flowers. The refreshments also 
complimented us by being in Agnes 
Scott colors. After Dixie was sung 
as a farewell song, the girls reluct- 
antly gathered up their wraps, and 
were brought back to the school. 

The ladies of the Methodist church 
have planned to take the girls to ride 
in relays of thirties or forties. They 
started on the afternoon of Friday, 
the 24th of October, and will repeat 
every week or so, until all of the 
Methodist girls have gone. 


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MUSE'S—sixth floor 


Have you seen the 
Muse MADELON 
Dept. on Muse's 
Sixth floor? This en- 
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Dresses, all at $39.50, 
and MADELON 
Coats, all at $69.50. 
The latest modes as 
sponsored in Vogue. 


MADELON 


Street Dresses— 
Afternoon Frocks— 


Dinner Gowns— 
Evening Gowns— 


q 


For every call of this fashionable 
season—these are Madelon Dresses 
—exclusive Madelon modes—hun- 
dreds—at just $39.50. You're de- 
lightfully surprised at the thought 
—and amazed when you see the 
great selection of beautiful creations 
to which $39.50 is the key. That 
for $39.50 any dress in this rare 
Madelon department is yours ! ! 


Muse’s 
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—Coats—luxuriously furred to the 
smart trend of the moment—as de- 
creed in ‘“Vogue’’—and the entire se- 
lection at one price—$69.50, The 
coats for every purpose—from snug 
motor coat to the smart note for the 
promenade. The glorious imported 
fabrics—furred in fox, mink, squirrel. 
$69.50. 


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for All Mad- 
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The One Price 
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Coats—$69.50 


SIXTH FLOOR 


Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1924 


No. 7 


Dr. Hatton Lectures To 
History Classes 
Saturday, Oct. 25 


“Parties and Party Blocs” 
Interesting Subject 


On Saturday morning from eleven- 
thirty to twelve-thirty Dr. Augustus 
Raymond Hatton gave an unusually 
interesting lecture in the chapel, his 
subject being “Parties and Party 
Blocs.” History students were in- 
deed fortunate in being able to attend 
his lecture, and learn from one who 
knows his subject thoroughly. Dr. 
Hatton was afterwards entertained at 
lunch in the Alumnae House. 

Dr. Hatton has been giving a series 
of lectures in Atlanta under the aus- 
pices of the Atlanta League of Wom- 
en Voters. He has spoken before the 
members of the Junior Chamber of 
Commerce, the Civitans, the Christian 
Council at the colored Y. M. C. A., 
the Rotarians, and the Masonic Club, 
besides lecturing each morning and 
evening at the Watkins building. He 
has been discussing government and 
civic management. 

Dr. Hatton is a man international- 
ly known. He is a charter expert, 
having made a study of city charters 
for the past fifteen years. He is 
a lecturer on municipal government 
and civic problems and a specialist on 
city charters and state constitutions. 
Dr. Hatton has just returned from 
abroad where during the past sum- 
mer, he gave many talks on state and 
city government. The audiences to 
which he spoke were greatly interest- 
ted in the United States’ new idea of 
city manager form of government, 
which at the present time is generally 
thought of as the most successful 
form of government for large. cities. 

Besides being a lecturer of great 
note, in truth of international fame, 
Dr. Hatton is professor of Political 
Science at Western Reserve Uni- 
versity in Cleveland, Ohio. He wrote 
the charter of this city, and is now 
a@ commissioner there. He was a 
member of the council of the National 
Municipal League, and field director 
of the same in 1917. He is the author 
of the “Digest of City Charters,” 
which was published in 1906, and also 
of various articles on municipal gov- 
ernment. 

Agnes Scott may indeed feel fortu- 
# nate in having secured the famous 
Dr. Augustus Raymond Hatton to 
lecture on a subject with which he is 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) 


Lecture At Agnes 
Scott In November 


i Dr. Lilly To Be Y. W. C. A. 
Speaker For 1924 


Dr. D. Clay Lilly, pastor of the 
Reynolds Presbyterian Church, of 
Winstom-Salem, North Carolina, is 
going to talk to the Agnes Scott com- 
munity at the chapel period during a 
Wiweek in November. Dr. Lilly is very 
distinguished in Presbyterian church 
cireles. Last summer he instigated 
a conference of the most notable men 
in America in the lines of science, 
education and theology. Besides, he 
has been chairman of the general 
assembly of stewardship committee, 
one of the most important offices in 
Presbyterian church affairs, He, him- 
self, is an outstanding theologian and 
is always consulted when a change is 
contemplated involving church polity. 

During the fall he wrote an import- 
ant book on stewardship which is re- 
garded as an authority on that sub- 
ject. In addition he has contributed 
many articles to magazines. His 
particular forte is personal work, 
which he emphasizes strongly in all 
that he does. 

Although distinguished in his own 
right, Dr. Lilly is also connected with 
important people. For instance, he 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) 


Dr. D. Clay Lilly To 


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INVESTITURE 


Blackfriars Enters\Class of 1925\Day Students To 


Intercollegiate 
Theatrical Contest 


“The Conflict” Chosen As Play 
To Be Presented 


Blackfriars has sent in her regis- 
tration for the national intercolleg- 
iate theatrical tournament, to be held 
at Northwestern University in the 
last part of December. Only nine 
standard colleges are allowed to par- 
ticipate in the contest, and, if the 
Blackfriars registration is received in 
time, Agnes Scott will be one of the 
nine. The tentative choice of a one- 
act play to be presented by Black- 
friars at that time is “The Conflict,” 
written by Clarice Vallette McCaul- 
ey, and played for the first time in 
1920, by the Vagabond Players of 
Baltimore. “The Conflict” has four 
characters, a mother, her two daugh- 
ters, and a_ twelve-year-old 
Three different casts are to be made 
from the of Blackfriars; 


each cast will present the play be- 


son. 
members 


fore suitable judges, and the one con- 
sidered best will represent Agnes 
Scott behind the footlights at North- 
western University. all prob- 
ability “The Conflict” will be given 
before the student body, too, before 
it is taken abroad. 


In 


As concerns the financial means 
of undertaking this project Black- 
friars has not yet made definite plans. 
It may be that the money taken in 
from the various plays given at the 
college will enable the club, unaided, 
to send its players to Illinois. Or per- 
haps the players themselves will be 
requested to pay a third of their ex- 
penses, the student body, a third, and 
the club the other third. No matter 
how the money is to be raised, the 
important fact is: That Blackfriars 
is going to Northwestern University 
to put up a stiff fight for the loving 
cup. As soon as Miss Gooch hears 
from Mr. Dennis, chairman of the 
tournament committee, enthusiastic 
work will begin on “The Conflict.” 


Formally Invested 
November 5 


Miss Alexander Addresses 
Members of Senior Class 


The Senior class of 1925 was given 
its formal right to the coveted cap 
and gown on Wednesday, November 
5. In other words, that day has come 
in their lives, for the ceremony 
at which they looked in awe and hush- 
ed admiration when freshmen, in 
thrilled comradeship when sophomore 
sisters, in pleased anticipation when 
juniors. 

To the inspiring strains of “An- 
cient of Days,’ the academic line 
marched down the chapel aisle; the 
faculty, followed by the sophomore 
sisters dressed in white, and the 
senior class. A line was formed on 
each side of the aisle by the sopho- 
mores, through which the seniors 
marched to their seats in front. 


After an inspirational address by | 


Miss Alexander the class of ’25 
marched singly to the stage, and there 
Miss Hopkins placed upon their heads 
the caps significant of their satis- 
factory completion of three years of 
college work. It is one of the red- 
letter days on the Agnes Scott calen- 
dar—Investiture Day. 


Mr. McRae Lectures 
On LaFollette Party 


International Relations Club 
Sponsors Lecture 


Through the efforts of the Interna- 
tional Relations Club, we were very 
fortunate in having Mr. McRae, a 
speaker for the La Follette party, 
give an interesting as well as en- 
lightening lecture on the third party 
and its leader Monday afternoon in 
the chapel. 


As Mr. McRae stated, the audience 
was not perhaps entirely sympathetic 
but after very convincing arguments, 
his listeners left with a clearer under- 
standing of just what La Follette and 
his party stand for, even if their sym- 
pathies were not swayed. Probably, 
the best influence that this lecture 
had was on the minds of those who 
considered this leader radical, es- 
pecially after a previous lecture by 

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Present Musical 
Comedy Nov. 8 


Plans For Vay. Student Cottage 
Being Completed 


Under the zealous leadership of 
Isabel Clarke, the president, the day 
students this year have been eagerly 
working in order to procure the money 
for the building of their long-dream- 
ed-of cottage. About one-half of the 
necessary $3,000 has already been ob- 
tained, besides a number of unpaid 
pledges of girls in the college, which 


| will probably be collected soon. 


In their endeavor to procure mon- 
ey, the day students do not despise 
the most modest of ways. For quite 
a while they have been selling old 
papers and magazines, and the stu- 
dents in the dormitories are asked to 
put theirs in the boxes placed for 
that purpose on the different floors. 
Tinfoil is also being saved by the 
day students, and they have a box for 
it in the basement of the library. Re- 
cently candy is being sold in the same 
place, and this means of making 
money has been very successful. Still 
another prosperous establishment in 
the library is that of the hair-clip- 
ping shop. A new pair of clippers 
was bought for the purpose, and any 
one whose neck needs attending to 
may come to the basement any day 
between 1:30 and 3:15 and bring 10 
cents. 

The day students are continuing to 
make plans for the realization of their 
cottage. On November the eighth, 
the much talked of musical comedy 
will be presented. From all reports, 
this will be one of the most enter- 
taining Saturday nights we are to en- 
joy, and without doubt the audi- 
torium will be crowded. Besides the 
play, this energetic group of students 
is planning a rummage sale in Decem- 
ber, and everyone is urged to save 
contributions for it. 

The exact location of the cottage 
is not yet known, but according to the 
plans for the new buildings on the 
campus, it will likely be either be- 
tween Inman and the Alumnae house 
ing will probably be brick. The build- 
in gwill probably be brick, and con- 
tain a large club room and some bed 
rooms. The need for such a cottage 
is certainly evident, and all help in 
its accomplishment will be appre- 
ciated. 


Dr. Carl Van Doren 
At Agnes Scott 
Oct. 28 


Interesting Lecture On 
“Revolt Against Dullness” 


We have had lecturers who have 
given us delightfully amusing enter- 
tainment; others who have impressed 
us with their great show of knowl- 
edge; still others who, by their 
lengthy discourses, have made us 
clearly conscious of the hardness of 
the chapel seats. Dr. Carl Van Doren 
could be classed with none of these. 
He does not lend his speech to flattery 
or extravagances of expression, but 
has a very pleasing style and per- 
sonality all his own. One of the 
most delightful characteristics of his 
discourse is the light vein of humor 
that flows continually. Evidences of 
a charming personality could be 
glimpsed quite often in his lecture in 
the chapel on Tuesday afternoon. His 
subject, “The Revolt Against Dull- 
ness” is in itself a stimulus; yet his 
treatment of it served to strengthen 
this stimulus to the extent that we 
were not quite willing to accept all 
of his statements until we had gone 
home and reviewed his lecture as a 
whole. 

In his discourse he narrowed his 
subject down to the field of litera- 
ture. His controlling purpose was to 
show how the standardization which 
grew up in the nineteenth century is 
being revolted against today in litera- 
ture by satire and romance. Dr. Van 
Doren varied the usual formal type 
of discourse used by the modern 
speaker and treated his subject in an 
informal manner. 

He began by giving the defining 
stage a very large place. Since the 
idea of dullness in America is com- 
paratively new, and since we are just 
recently waking up to the fact, it 
was necessary that he explain just 
what he meant by it. Dullness, he 
said, is the result of standardization 
of the nineteenth century. The ma- 
chines which were invented during 
that century have brought the Ameri- 
ean people to a standardized way of 
living, and this has resulted in uni- 
formity of thinking. Opinion, he 
pointed out, is the only thing you 
can not standardize with advantage. 
He brought up the evils of “im- 
mentality” as greater than the evils 
of immorality. Do not let goodness 

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Cotillion Club 
Entertains at a Formal 
Dance November 1 


Japanese Dances Feature 
Program 


Evening dresses and a decorated 
gym! 

That is what the dance given by the 
Cotillion Club on Saturday night, 
November 1, meant—plus a wonderful 
time. 

The gym was veritably transformed 
into a Japanese Garden. Lanterns 
and brilliantly colored umbrellas hung 
all around, while in each corner of 
the room bright chrysanthemums 
drooped over dolls, beautiful dolls, 
having tea parties all their own. Blue, 
lavender, pink and yellow vied with 
one another for the place as most 
prominent color. 

The dance was formally opened by 
the grand march, led by Elizabeth 
Little and Mary Keesler. Confetti 
was showered upon the participants, 
making the scene under the mystic 
lights very beautiful, and adding 
greatly to the gaiety of the occasion. 

A well supplied punch bowl was 
most popular, attesting to the good- 
ness of its contents. 

During intermission the guests of 
the Cotillion Club were entertained 
with three attractive Japanese 
dances: the Lantern dance, the Um- 
brella dance, and the Juggler’s dance. 


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Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
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It would be quite interesting if we could obtain statistics of 
the number of girls at Agnes Scott who ever read the New York 
Times, the Constitution, the Literary Digest, or any other daily 
or weekly paper on contemporary events of interest to Americans, 
which are of both national and international importance. It is 
feared that the number would be exceedingly small, in fact dis- 
gracefully small. Does this show a lack of. interest among college 
students of today on the leading questions in the political and 
economic world? 

We hope that the numerous lectures, sponsored by the Inter- 
national Relations Club, on the party issues, platforms and candi- 
dates in this election, which is one of the most important in years, 
on account of the rise to prominence of a third party, have aroused 
the interest of the student body so much that each one will be 
anxious to learn on November 5 whom the American people have 
elected president for the next four years. It is hoped that this 
interest having been awakened will last throughout the year. 

Instead of there being a tendency to ignore contemporary his- 
tory, the American college students should be vitally interested 
in it. At no other time in our history have the events been of 
more importance both to us as a nation and as a member of the 
family of nations. The American college student of today is the 
voter of tomorrow. Upon them will depend the policies of America 
in the next few years. 

It is the duty of every Agnes Scott girl to become interested 
and well informed upon current problems of government. Agnes 
Scott attempts to bring lecturers to you, but to know something 
of the situation, you should read the development from day to 
day. At present few girls, out of the Debating Club and History 
Nine ever read articles on current events. The library takes the 


leading daily papers and the weekly and monthly magazines, which 
are considered the most impartial and influential magazines of 
today. Won’t you use these papers occasionally and thereby es- 
tablish a standard of interest in world affairs for future Agnes 
Scott girls and American citizens? 


“LITTLE GIRL” DAY NOY. 4TH. | MACDONALD, ESSIG AND BLED- 


SOE ADMITTED TO FOLIO 


Seniors Become Young Again 
As the result of the try-outs held 
last week, Folio has three new mem- 
bers. Janet MacDonald, Caroline 
Essig, and Myrtle Bledsoe were judged 
worthy of being admitted to the 
Freshman Short-Story Club. 
Although the seven tryouts were 
discussed at the meeting held 
Mariam Preston’s room the week be- 
fore last, no decision could be reached 
until last week. The girls met again 
in Mrs. Dickman’s office and reached 
their final decision. Initiation will be 
held soon, and the club ready to begin 
this year’s work in earnest. The old 
members are looking forward to re- 


ceiving these three girls with a great 
deal of pleasure and wish them the 
best success in story-writing. 


The freshmen felt themselves quite 
old and wise Tuesday when their sen- 
ior grandmothers turned back the 
years and resumed the role of little 
girls once more, before departing from 
their school days to go out into the 
world where they will be little girls no 
longer, The dining room resounded 
with merry laughter and nursery 
songs as the seniors skipped into 
breakfast and bade the faculty and 
student body good-morning. Through- 
out the day, they giggled and played 
games in true little girl fashion, and 
the students who watched the fun 
saw these seniors as they were in 
their childhood. 


in 


News 


University of Florida 
A vast photographic work is now 
being conducted on the campus of 
Florida University so that the citizens 
of Florida will have the opportunity to 
visualize the wonderful work that 


their university is carrying on. The 
several thousand feet of film now be- 
ing taken portray the growth and 
development of the state institution, 
its countless activities, and every 
phase of student life. 

A very interesting and beneficial 
addition will be made to the Pharmacy 
School of the University of Florida in 
the form of a drug garden. The new 
project is being established by the 
recommendation of Dr. T. R. Leigh, 
the director of the school. 


University of Virginia 

Following the example of many of 
the large schools in the north, east and 
west, the University of Virginia has 
changed “College Topics” 
weekly newspaper to a daily this year. 
The paper is under the editorship of 
Mr. Hoffheimer, of New York, and 
seems to be making great progress. 
This is the first college daily to be 


inaugurated in the state and one of 
the first in the south, 


from a 


Georgia Tech 

The Lyceum Laboratory Hall of 
Chemistry is to be enlarged with a 
one hundred thousand dollar addition. 
This measure has seemed advisable 
because of the constantly increasing 
size of the classes coming to Tech 
each year. In the basement of the ad- 
dition will be found an organic labora- 
try, several class rooms, necessary of- 
fices and the instructors’ laboratory. 


Mercer. 

The “Mercer Cluster” has received 
high commendation from one of the 
news reporters of our state. The style 
and appearance of the paper, and par- 
ticularly the feature articles were 
praised. 


DAY STUDENT NEWS 


“Overheard”—a melodrama in three 
acts. 

Time—Yes. 

Scene—Crowded. 

Characters—Eyvyentually all present. 

ACT J. 

Door opens on Jo-Anne, sitting in 
the window swinging one shoe. 

Jo-Anne—“Hey Axel!” 

Enter Alex Powell, amid cheers. 

Alex—“’Lo yourself.” 

Mary Lynes—“Don’t forget ‘The 
Stringem Girl’ and please do—” 

Mary Ben—“I must have your 
schedules by this afternoon at the 
latest.” 

Ruth Liggin—‘Oh! I’m simply pet- 
rified! I have to debate on Saturday 
and my debate is the worst even I 
have ever written. I’m petrified!” 

Some Worried Freshman—‘Won’t 
somebody please read this Latin for 
me? I’m stuck right here.” 

Martha Crowe, Elizabeth McCallie— 
“Has Grace come yet?” 

Alex (concluding her story to Jo 
Anne)—‘‘And we had the best time!’ 

Margaret Rogers (with a yawn)— 
“That’s nothing. I had only five hours 
sleep last night, and most of it was 
this morning.” (Her original and 
unique giggle.) 

Mary Knox—‘T just couldn’t study 
at all last night. It was this way: 
Albert came down to ask me—” 

Jo Marbut—“You needn’t explain, 
we understand.” 

Florence Smith—“Well, that’s aw- 
ful, but really girls, I have been dis- 
appointed in love. But still, there’s 
some compensation in little mus- 
taches.” 

Isabel Clark—Now, Elizabeth, it’s 
this way—last night Maurice and I 
were having a regular debate over 
that, and he said—” 

Elizabeth Chapman—“Well, Carl,— 
said it wasn’t true at all and he ought 
to know “cause he’s at the Grady.” 

Bell rings without—without thar- 
mony. 

Exeunt Omnes. 

Curtain. 

Acts IT and III necessarily must fol- 
low. 


Intercollegiate ||Chemistry Prize 


Essay Contest 


American Chemical Society Offers 
Prize. 
The American Chemical Society 


has announced its second prize es- 

say contest in accordance with the 

terms of the gift of Mr. and Mrs. 

Francis P. Garman. Awards will be 

made for the best essays on: 

1. The Relation of Chemistry 
Health and Disease. 


2. The Relation of Chemistry to the 
Enrichment of Life. 


3. The Relation of Chemistry to Agri- 
culture and Forestry. 

4. The Relation of Chemistry to the 
Home. 

5. The Relation of Chemistry to Na- 
tional Defense. 

6. The Relation of Chemistry to the 
Development of an Industry or a 
Resource of the United States. 
Six $1,000 prizes (one for each sub- 

ject) will be awarded for the best 

essays written by undergraduate stu- 
dents of universities and colleges in 
the United States. Contestants may 
submit one essay of not more than 
five thousand words. Essays must 
be in the hands of the committee not 

later than March 1, 1925. 

There is also a High School prize 
essay contest about which anyone who 
is interested may find information 
on a poster in Science Hall. 


to 


Any student who is contemplating 
entering this contest may find the 
rules and regulations for the essay 
in pamphlets in the Science Library. 

The papers are to be sent to the 
following address: 

Committee on Prize Essays, 
American Chemical Society, 

85 Beaver Street, 
New York City. 


“BREAKFAST HIKE” OC- 
TOBER 28 


FIRST 


The first “breakfast hike” of the 
year occurred Tuesday, October 28. 
About forty-four girls courageously 
pushed back the blankets in the cold 
of the early morning and followed 
Miss Randolph’s Ford for a mile 
through the mud. They were well 
rewarded for a good camp fire was 
waiting for them. The weiners were 
roasted, the coffee boiled, and the 
sacks of apples and bananas emptied. 
Everyone trudged happily back to A. 
S. C. We hope that the enjoyment 
and enthusiasm shown on this hike 
will last throughout the year. 


“What was the denomination of that 
bill you loaned me?” 

“Episcopalian, I guess, 
lent.” 


it keeps 


—Ex. 


“We're going to name our new 
baby ‘Flannel’.” 
“Why so?” 


Meeting Of The Classical 
Club, October 31 


Mystery Lore of Ancient Rome For 
Hallowe’en Meeting 


At the meeting of the Classical 
Club on Friday evening, October 31, 
carried out the Hal- 
lowe’en idea in a most original and 
The room was 


the program 


charming manner. 
decorated in the approved ghostly 
fashion and the dim lighting produced 
the feeling of mystery in a truly 
spooky way. 

Instead of the conventional black 
cat, owl druidical witch, ete. the 
Hallowe’en motif was carried out by 
the superstitions and mystery lore of 
the ancient Romans. Various mem- 
bers of the club were featured in 
readings from the classical authors 
on practices which correspond to our 


Hallowe’en superstitions. One of the 
most charming of these concerned the 
story of a young girl who consulted 
the traditional witch to learn of her 
fate in a perplexing love affair. An- 
other was a “Song of the Fates.” 
Throughout the range of this un- 
usually delightful program, there_ 


were other equally good representa- 
tions of folk-lore and superstitions 


from the classics, and all had a ring 
of modernity which is so typical of 
these authors but is often so startling 
to the uninitiated. 

There were some musical selections, 
and the whole party joined in songs 
which would have made Virgil and his 
fellows forget that they were in a 
strange land. Indeed, Virgil would 
have been quite captivated by the use 
of his prophetic leaves by anxious 
Agnes Scotters who desired to know 
the future. Sophomores and fresh- 
men were dumfounded by the remarks 
of the ancient apropos to their own 
particular week, and by this same wise 
gentleman, and the fate of exams 
was settled at last, much to the de- ' 
light of all who attended the “seance” 
of the club. 


COLLEGE COMMUNITY EXTENDS 
SYMPATHY TO ELSA 
JACOBSEN 


The faculty and students were 
grieved to hear of the death of Elsa 
Jacobsen’s father, which occurred 
October 25th. Elsa, who is a soph- 
omore, is well known and loved by all 
of the girls and the entire college 
community wishes to extend to her its 
deep and sincere sympathy. 


“Because he shrinks so from wash- 


; ” 


ing. 
—Tar Baby. 


“Ma, can I go out to play?” 
“What, Willie! With those holes in 
your trousers?” 
“Naw, with the kids across the 
street.” 
—Phoenix. 


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GIDDIE, GOSsIP 


Thursday night— 


§ Giddy, dear: 

It seems like every time I write 
you there’s always something to take 
the joy out of life—this time it’s 
Latin Prose! You may think I’m 
joking about it being hard, but just let 
me tell you something—it took a lot 
of the seniors three years to pass it 
—and they ought to be real smart. So 
far I haven’t flunked but one exercise, 
but I’ve got “anawful” test tomor- 
row and I don’t know a thing. Why, 
I’ve taken so many coaching lessons 
from Miss Stansfield that she'll have 
enough money to take a trip around 
the world pretty soon. I heard some 
senior say that a girl named ‘Gusta 
Thomas gave her one (a trip to Eu- 
rope, I mean), but I think mine’s go- 
ing to be the farthest. 

Giddy, have you ever heard of Lucy 
Winn? She’s about the funniest thing 
you ever saw. Sine says that the 
other day in education class, after Mr. 
Stukes had called the roll and Lucy’s 
name was last she said: “Oh, Mr. 
Stukes! I’m so glad you’ve put my 
name at end of the roll where it be- 
longs. It always made me jump when 
you called it first.” That made Mr. 
Stukes and the whole class laugh and 
then he said: “Well, Miss Luey—from 
now on you can be first again if you 
want to.” 

Guess what I heard somebody say 
the other day, Giddy? That Miss Daisy 
Frances—she just graduated last year 
—was so lazy that she got up at five 
o'clock every morning so she’d have 
more time to loaf. I really think, 


though, they must have been wrong 
because she always seems pretty busy 
to me. 


DR. CARL VAN DOREN LECTURED 
AT AGNES SCOTT, OCTOBER 28 
‘(Continued from Page 1, Column 5.) 


cause dullness; rather develop the 
full mental capacity than give too 
much attention to morals. 

The United States is beginning a 
period of intellectual activity greater 
than ever before. The last decade 
has brought the best literature of 
the country. The revolt against this 
standardization has come during this 
period in the form of satire and 
romance, 

Having thus completed the defini- 
tion and analysis of dullness he next 
dwelt on the nature of the revolt, it- 
self. As an outgrowth of standardi- 
zation of opinions, first came the re- 
volt in the form of satire by Sin- 
clair Lewis—‘Main Street” and “Bab- 
bit.” The thing which Mr. Lewis de- 
plores in “Main Street” is the low 
level of intelligence caused by the 
standardization of opinion. Carol 


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I signed up for the tennis tourna- 
ment yesterday and when I went to 
look at the list today, whose name do 
you think was right under mine? 
Mary Cunningham’s! Why I couldn’t 
even return one of her balls—much 
less play two whole sets against her. 
I might as well just not play at all. 
I guess though I do know more about 
tennis than some people around here 
Walkie Perry 
and Grace Boone were going out to 
play tennis the other afternoon and 


Grace said: “Oh! don’t we need some- 
thing to keep score on?”—can you 
imagine anything funnier? 

I don’t know one speck of news to 
tell you—’cept Margaret Dyer still 


—and seniors at that. 


gets as many “specials” as ever and 
so does Evelyn Sprinkle. I never did 
tell you about her, did 1? Well, she 


has two boys that send her “specials” 
and one day she gets one from one of 


them and the next day from the other 
—and then on Sunday she gets two— 
one from each of them. Oh, well! 
you just wait till some sweet day 
when I find me a true love. 

In the meantime though I must bore 
away on Latin Prose and why some- 
-thing’s ablative when it looks like 
I don’t see why they have 
such deceptive courses here at Agnes 
Seott when we have the honor sys- 
tem, do you? 

It’s time for my next coaching les- 


son now and I must hurry down to 
room 35 Main. 

Yours till Latin Prose at A. S. C. 
becomes a cinch, 


dative. 


AGGIE. 
P. S.—Miss Daisy Frances told us 
the other day to always remember 
that hens set and lay, and people sit 
and lie. 


was a college girl who came to a 
typical small town and revolted from 
the monotony of conforming to its 
set rules and standards, but who 
lacked the intelligence to make the 
revolt effective. 

Another revolt in literature in the 
past decade was made in the realm 
of romance by Caval in his romances. 
He is much like Spenser in his cast- 
ing aside the universe and inventing 
a new world of pure fancy and put- 
ting new characters on it. In this 
way he would keep a new world of 
beauty before us. The fact that so 


many girls are deserting the teach- 
er’s sphere and are going into the 
literary field is another evidence of 
the revolt and of the probability that 
it is now at its greatest height. 


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DR. HATTON LECTURES TO HIS- 
TORY CLASSES SATURDAY, 
OCTOBER 25 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1.) 


thoroughly conversant, and which he 
refers to as “Political Blocs and Puz- 
zle Parties.’ Anyone wishing to 
know more about Dr. Hatton may 
gain the desired information by look- 
ing in “Who’s Who.” 


DR. D. CLAY LILLY TO LECTURE 
AT AGNES SCOTT IN 
NOVEMBER 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1.) 


is Elizabeth Lilly’s father and chair- 
man of the board of trustees at Sayre 
College, where Nancy Evans, who 
graduated last spring, is teaching. 
His father-in-law is the world fam- 
ous Dr, Guerrant, especially noted for 
his work among the Kentucky moun- 
taineers. 

Dr. Lilly is an able and consecrated 
speaker, beloved of his congregation. 
Agnes Scott is indeed fortunate in 
securing him for this fall. 


A Miserable Miser. 


I knew a man that was so stingy he 
married an armless woman to keep 
from buying the ring—he used to stop 
the clock at nights to keep from 
wearing out the works. He would look 
over his glasses to keep them from 
wearing out. He used to take long 
steps when he walked, to save his 
shoes. When he sent his hired man 
into the orchard to gather cherries he 
would keep him whistling all the time 
so he couldn’t eat any of the fruit. 
He took his food in capsules to save 
his teeth. He lost his pocketbook 
with twenty dollars in it. A fellow 
found it and returned it a week later. 
He charged the fellow interest on the 
money while he had it. 

—Southern. 


Soaring Skyward 

Pat had gone back to Ireland and 
was telling about New York. 

‘Have they such tall buildings in 
America as they say, Pat?” asked the 
parish priest. 

“Tall buildings, ye ask sir?’ replied 
Pat. “Faith, sir, the last one I worked 
on we had to lay on our stomachs to 
let the moon pass.” 

—BEx. 


Cc 


The marriage of Olive Hardwick, 
class of 718 to Rev. Eason Cross, of 


California, has recently been an- 
nounced. Mr. Cross is an Emory 
graduate. 


Francis Charlotte Markley ’21, has 
returned from a tour of Europe with 
Miss Gibbons, who taught at Agnes 
Scott two years. 

Helen (Faw) Mull (Mrs. James 
W.), ’28, is recovering from a recent 
operation, 

Mary Knight, ’22, has recently ac- 
cepted a position with the Retail 
Credit Co., of Atlanta, 

Alice Whipple '22, 
Greensboro, N. C. 

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quart- 
erly is just out and it contains many 
items which are of interest to the 
school at large. 


is teaching in 


Among these are: 
Eloise Knight is back at Nacoochee. 
She has bobbed her hair. 


Polly Stone and Dick Scandrett 
come out to Agnes Scott often, with 
Beulah Davidson and Hilda MceCon- 
nell. Polly had a most exciting sum- 
mer in New England, acting in the 
Little Theater in Gloucester, Mass. 

Lib Hoke, ’23, is principal 
school in her home town, Lincolnton, 
North Carolina. 

A good many of the 1924 girls are 
teaching this year. 


of a 


Among them are: 
Montine Pharr at Ocoee, Fla.; Janice 
Brown and Mary Greene at Honea 
Path, S. C. 

Naney Evans 
Grace Bargeron at Langdale, Ala.; 
Barron Hyatt at Norton, Va.; Sarah 
Kinman at Bartow, Fla.; Mary Mob- 
kerley at Laurel, Miss.; Dell Bern- 
hardt N. C.; Martha 
Eakes in South Georgia; Valeria 
Posey in Fort Valley, Ga. 


at Sayre College, 


in Newman, 


Emily Guille has had a wonderful 
at Miss Randolph’s camp. 
She is staying at home this winter, 
helping to run the farm, reading and 
riding horseback. On her way home 


summer 


from New Hampshire, Em stopped 


3 


NEW LIBRARY RULES AS AN- 
NOUNCED IN STUDENT GOY- 
ERNMENT. 


The following rules concerning the 
Library were announced in the Stu- 
dent Government meeting on Tues- 
day night: 

Knocks. 

Any girl who has to be spoken to 
three times in one day about her con- 
duct will be prohibited from the use of 
library for one week. 

All reserved books must be returned 
to the desk at the end of the hour for 
which they are signed. 

If a book has to be called in, the 
girl who has it will pay a fine of 25 
cents and will be excluded from 
library until fine is paid, 


A New Dish 
A nigger sat on the railroad track 
And he wouldn’t budge, 
*Long came a train— 
Chocolate fudge. 
—The Gold and Black. 


Said the Cynic: “Life is just one 
fool thing after another; love is just 
two fool things after each other.” 


Frohsin’s 
Says— 


Behold the subtle power 
of sparkling clothes that 
takes you gaily down the 
path of Happiness — of 
Life—and Popularity! 


CLOTHES for Agnes 
Scott Teachers and Stu- 
dents — Dresses, Coats, 
Ensemble Suits, Coats, 
Furs, Blouses, Under- 
silks.—The most bril- 
liant collection we have 
ever shown. 


C. & C. 


Rosenbaum 


Hats—Furs 


and Hosiery 


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A big word in buying 


Over Ten Years of Sat- 
isfactory Service to 
Our Customers 


One reason why you may depend on 


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Between Whitehall and Broad 


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BURSON BROTHERS 


Expert Shoe Repairing 


538 McDONOUGH ST., DECATUR, GA. 
DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING 


Salted 
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Mints 
Oandies 


Trammell’s Candy Kitchen 
DECATUR, GA. 


109 Sycamore St, 


for a week-end with Mart Hay, ex 
28 Mart is to be the social secre- 
tary of the wife of the president of 


Prices moderate—here. 


the University of Michigan this year. 

Mary White Caldwell, ex ’23, is 
starting on her third year at St. 
Luke’s Hospital in Richmond, Va. 
where she is training to be a nurse 
in China. 


M. Rich & Bros. Co. 


Dance Frocks 


Romance—done in chiffon, 
filmy georgettes and gleam- 
ing satins. Such individual 
frocks, these, to dance 
away the happy hours. To 
emphasize their charm de- 
signers have made promi- 
nent use of ostrich, which 
is so very, very smart. 


—Straight, 
frocks, remarkable 
price, $35. 
Lush greens. 
of reds. 


tube-like, graceful 
at their 
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Dull rich tones 


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HE AGONISTI 


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Aggie’s Funny Bone 


A Case of Doubtful Vaccination 

Mary says she’s being exposed to 
chemistry and adds, ‘“Here’s hoping it 
takes.” 


Needless advice: “Men should not 
deceive their wives.” 
“Heavens!—they don’t.” 


Country: “What is a kiss?” 

Club: “I bite, what is it?” 

Country: “A kiss is a married 
man’s duty, and a single man’s 
pleasure.” 


Freshman to Soph: “I’m a little 
stiff from bowing.” 
Soph: “I don’t give a hoot where 


you’re from—lean over that chair.” 


Problem in Math, 
If two ean sleep alone why can’t 
one sleep together? 


This was seen on the inside of 
Isabel’s book cover: “Please do not 
steal this book. There’s a better one 
in somebody else’s locker.” 


“Words fail me,’ muttered the 
freshman as she flunked the French 
exam, 


Romantic knights aren’t usually 


dark, 


Absent-minded Professor P. D. 
Smith had left his berth in the sleep- 


MR, McRAE LECTURES ON 
FOLLETTE PARTY 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3.) 


LA 


representatives of the Democratic 
party who had very definite effects 
on our prejudiced minds. 

It is evident that Mr. La Follette 
is a man who will fight to the end 
for what he believes is right as seen 
in his political life. During his cam- 
paign for governor of Wisconsin for 
a second time, he spoke for forty-eight 
days, and eight hours a day. He had 
great difficulty in being elected, but 
by his persistence he finally won a 
complete victory. During his office 
as governor, he made many improve- 
ments, and was able to put through 
progressive movements in railroad 
transportation, manufacturing, bank- 
ing systems, and dairy concerns. He 
thus proved that if “radical” move- 
ments were beneficial for the people 
of one state, they would be relief for 
the whole nation. 

Mr. La Follette’s platform consists 
of two very definite “planks”: His 
movement against the supreme court, 
and his foreign policy. Mr. McRae 
insisted that since La Follette ad- 
hered strictly to the constitution he 


proposed to present to the people an| 


amendment to be added to the consti- 


tution, whereby the supreme court 
could not have power to exercise votes 
against Congress, the representatives 
of the people. 


Lindsey -Beverly Co. 


Commercial Printing 
East Court Square, Decatur, Ga. 


Trio Laundry 


Dry Cleaning 


and 


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**Atlanta’s Finest’’ 


AGENTS 


Florence Perkins Anne McKay 
Margaret Debele 


er to find a drink of ice water, and 
was hopelessly lost in the middle of 
the aisle. It was about midnight and 
the train was speeding through the 


country. “Don’t you remember the 
number of your berth?” asked the 
conductor. 

“Pm—er—afraid not,’ was the 
reply. 

“Well, haven’t you any idea 


where it was?” 

“Why, uh—oh, yes, to be sure.” 
The professor brightened up  per- 
ceptibly, “I did notice at one time 
this afternoon that the windows look- 
ed out upon a little lake.” 


Porter: “This train goes to Syra- 
cuse and points west.” 

Old Lady: “Well, I want a train 
that goes to Buffalo, and I don’t 
care which way it points.” 


“How’s business, these days?” 
“Terrible.” 

“Well, how’s your wife?” 
“Just the same.” 


The Freshman’s Three Best Sellers. 
1. “If Winter Comes” try and stop 
it. 


2. “Gone but Not Forgotten’”—the 


rousing tale of a room-mate who 
snored. 
3. “Bound to Rise”—tells about 


how Fleischmann made his millions. 
A stirring tale of the East—it takes 
the cake. 


Mr. La Follette is absolutely 
against the League of Nations and 
World Court. He does not believe 
that the United States should become 
entangled in foreign political affairs, 
but he is in favor of some kind of 
board of arbitration that will control 
international affairs, and not the gov- 
ernment of any one country. 

The present party has done noth- 
ing in the way of compelling the for- 
eign loans to be paid, because of the 
bankers who are in control and waht 
their private debts paid first. Mr. La 
Follette seems to think that by a 
board of arbitration these matters 
can be settled. 

Mr. La Follette has been unneces- 
sarily abused by newspapers that 
have not analyzed his platform and 
but Mr. McRae 
vineed as are all of his followers, 
that La Follette, whether elected or 
not, will be the most powerful man 
in the White House after January, 
1925. 


principles, is con- 


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| ATHLETIC NEWS 


As tests approach and the freshmen 
grades come out our attention is apt 
to be given to our mental! activities, 
while our physical being is neglected. 
However, if we stop to think just a 
minute, we will realize that eight 


hours of sleep a night, three meals a} 


day, and six hours of exercise a week 
are essential to the correct function- 
ing of our brains, and are not just a 
waste of time. 

Not only are the “gym” regulations 
beneficial to our bodily and mental 
they furnish much of the 
One can take history 


needs, 
“spice of life.” 
notes for hours and not crack a smile 
much less get enthusiastic; but who 
can go to a hockey practice and not 
get excited. There is always some- 
thing ludicrous happening in “gym” 
classes. Carp is ever doing one of 
her dare-devil rolling stunts across the 
hockey field or Spivey knocking a ball 
so that it resembles a shooting star, to 
say nothing of the circuses that Miss 
Sinclaire conducts. And swimming is 
much fun even if the pool is small. 

By the way, have you noticed the 
new hockey sticks? The game is 
much more interesting when the play- 
ers were shinguards and use brand 
new sticks. If you don’t believe it, 
just come out and see! 

Saturday marked the half-way 
ground of the class series of games. 
And just think every class still has a 
chance to win the championship! Come 
out to practice and not only fill your 
exercise card, but help your class to 
win; furthermore, you'll enjoy it too. 


The Ultimate Tragedy 

The policeman, hearing the shot, 
burst into the fashionable apartment. 
Cringing before him on the floor was 
the crumpled figure of a woman, 
weeping hysterically, a smoking pistol 
clutched in her trembling fingers. 

“My husband! Oh, my husband!” 
she moaned. 

“Control yourself, lady,” urged the 
officer. “Where is the corpse?” 

“Gone,” sobbed the woman. “He 
went out through the window. I—I 
missed him.” 

—American Legion Weekly. 


A Proposal—Or What? 
He: “Would you accept a pet mon- 
key?” 
She: “Oh, I would have to ask fath- 
er. This is so sudden.” 
—Spokesman. 


More than 
20 


Smart a Styles 


ORO 


Trane ROS 
SHOES 
Priced at 


$10 


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Cordial Welcome 


DECATUR, GA. 


Yeey. C. A. 


BUDGET NOT YET RAISED 


Do Your Part. 


Have you done your part towards 

he Y. W. C. A,? Someone has fallen 
a for thus far we have not met 
our budget for this year. There are 
three hundred members of the Y, W. 
C, A. and only two hundred and sixty- 
three have pledged. We do not want 
anyone to pledge unwillingly, or more 
than they can afford, but we feel 
that there are many who might be 
able to pledge a small amount and 
hesitate to do so on account of the 
smallness of it. Please remember 


that every dollar is made up of pen- 
nies. If the thirty-seven who have 
not pledged would give only one dol- 
lar each think how that would mount 
| 
| 


up! 

I’m sure there are others, not mem- 
bers of the Y. W. C. A. who still in- 
tend to join, and even a small contri- 
bution from them will add something 
to our deficient budget. 

We have a smaller budget this year 
than that of last year, yet we are 
falling down on a matter which means 
Why should we fail 
now when we have never done so be- 


so much to us. 
fore? We cannot fail if every girl 
will do as much as she can. 
what the Y. W. means to you, and 
ask yourself if you are paying the 
debt you owe. 

The Y. W. has a treat in store for 
November. We are to have Dr. D. 
Clay Lilly to lecture to us. He is to 
have the chapel period and a half 
hour every evening. Dr. Lilly’s spe- 
cialty is individual conferences, so we 
are hoping that there will be a per- 
sonal touch to his visit which will 
leave every girl better as a result of 
his having been here. We are look- 
ing forward with a great deal of anti- 
eipation to Dr. Lilly’s visit, all the 
more because he is Lib’s father and 


we feel that he already belongs to 
us. 


32 Whitehall St. 


Now Showing the 


Season’s Choice in 


Stylish Beats 


A Call Will Con- 


vince You 


Millinery 


| A discount given on all purchases 
made by Agnes Scott. 


welcome— 
Wiggle thru and help yourself. 
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT 


G. B. Spearman, Mgr. 


PI ALPHA PHI HOLDS MEETING 


OCTOBER 30 
z 
Subjgcts Suggested For Intercol- 
4 legiate Debate 


Pi Alpha Phi held its regular meet- 
ing om’ Thursday evening, October 
30th. The program consisted chiefly 
of a debate on: Resolved, That the 
Use of Injunctions Should Be Prohib- 
ited. The speakers upholding the 
affirmative were Misses Ruth Liggin 
and Elizabeth Woltz; the negative 
Misses Emily Jones and Larsen Mat- 
tox. Both faculty and students voted 
as to decisions, and the faculty vote 
was two to one in favor of the nega- 
tive. The faculty judges were Miss 
Laney, Miss Gaylord, and Miss Daisy 
Frances Smith. 

It was announced that the debat- 
ing council has suggested the two 
following subjects for this year’s in- 
tercollegiate debate: Resolved, That 
the Parliamentary System Is a More 
Effective System of Government 
Than the Governmental; and, Resolv- 
ed, That Japanese Immigration Should 
Be Permitted on the Basis of the 
Present Immigration Laws. 


MRS. HINMAN TALKS AT 
AGNES SCOTT 


“The Necessity of Art,” Subject of 
Talk. 


Agnes Scott was glad to show its 
interest in the observance of National 
Picture Week by having Mrs. Hinman, 
of Atlanta, speak to us on “The Ne- 
cessity of Art.” Mrs. Hinman, who 
is chairman of the committee on 
School Art in the Atlanta Art Asso- 
ciation, spoke of how necessary art 
and music are to our spiritual life, and 
of how materialism was emphasized 
until it reached its crisis in the great 
Since the war the United States 
has recognized the necessity of the 
aesthetic side of life, and has en- 
deavored to give art, music and poetry 
an important place in the lives of her 
people. Through art courses, art ex- 
hibits and National Picture Week this 
is being made possible. 

We are very grateful to Mrs. Hin- 


war. 


man for her message, which will be re- 
membered on our campus and in our 
lives. 


Announcing the Opening of 
Muse Beauty Shop 


FACIALS 
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Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1924 


No. 8 


Day Students Present “The 
String "Em Girl” November 8 


) 


Musical Comedy Featured 
By Choruses and Dances 


It is not always true that anticipa- 
tion is better than realization, but al- 
though we had heard many delightful 
reports of “The String ‘Em Girl,” we 
were not one bit disappointed when 
we finally saw this musical gem writ- 
‘ten by the facile pen of Mary Lynes. 
‘The choruses were especially good, 
having as one of their main features, 
“In the Garden of Tomorrow,” sung by 
Hazel Huff and Ruth Drane. Gene 
‘Dozier rendered an exceptionally 
clever and graceful dance in the in- 
termission between the second and 
third acts. Isabelle Clarke made a 
handsome and dashing hero for the 
dainty heroine, Kitty Johnson, who in 
her 1924 style flapped her way into 
‘all our hearts. Virginia MHollings- 
worth and Rosalie Wooten gave us 
harming’ pictures into the lives of a 
modern flapper’s mother and grand- 
mother who were not such angels as 
they would pretend they had been in 
their day. 

The cast consisted of the following: 


Prologue 
Grandmother ........ Frances Chambers 
‘Mother .............. Mary Palmer Caldwell 
WWharlotte: ......0...... Katherine Johnson 


Act I (1875) 

Charlotte, the Flapper — Rosalie 
Wooten. 
_ Elizabeth, the would-be Flapper— 
Stella Pitman. 
_ Alfred Panter, the Poet—Elizabeth 
McCallie. 
_ Felix, the Colonel—Louise Smith. 
ig Boks the Hero—Isabelle Clarke. 
yen *Dozier—*Valse 


eg a 
Act IL (1900) 
Lottie, the Flapper—Virginia Hol- 
j lingsworth. 
Solomon Higgins—Caroline McKin- 
ney. 
Professor—Juanita Greer, 
Ralph, the Hero—Isabelle Clarke. 
Song, “In the Garden of Tomor- 
ow”—Hazel Huff and Ruth Drane. 
Act III (1924) 
Charlie, the Flapper — Katherine 
Johnson, 
(Continued cn Page 4, Column 1) 


Miss Grace Loucks To 
Speak At Agnes 
Scott This Week 


Miss Loucks Will Speak on the 
“Way of Christ” 


The Y. W. C. A. is bringing the 
WStudent Body a most interesting 
¥speaker on November 13 in the per- 
qson of Miss Grace Loucks. 
Miss Loucks is the National Y. W. 
GC. A. Students’ secretary. -She is 
}widely known as an inspiring speaker 
on the subject of Christ. Many of 
qthe Agnes Scott girls had the good 
‘ffortune to meet Miss Loucks at Blue 
Ridge when she spoke there in 1922, 
representing “The Woman's Press,” 
te Y. W. C. A. magazine. Attempts 
;iwere made to engage her for the col- 
fiege then, but Miss Loucks’ time was 
entirely filled. 
Thus it is with particular pleasure 
that we look forward to the 13th 
Hthrough the 16th of November, dur- 
Ming which days Miss Loucks will speak 
‘Hrequently at both chapel and prayers, 
on the “Way of Christ.” Her visit 
will be concluded with the message 
which she will bring at Vesper serv- 
ice on Sunday evening. 
mene girls who met Miss Loucks at 


er interesting talks, but also for her 
icharming personality. It is the sin- 
ere hope of the Y, W. C. A. that each 
4student who has not already had the 
}pleasure, will become acquainted with 


Mr. J. K. Orr, Chairman 
of the Board of | 
Trustees 


Under His Leadership Agnes 
Seott Has Had Great 
Success 


The more we learn of our college, 
its history and its officers, the more 
we admire and respect its spirit and 
achievements. As an institution of 
learning, it has won extensive recog- 
nition among the colleges and uni- 
versities of highest rank. Such suc- 
cess comes only to #4 institution 
whose foundation is bvilt on truth, 
breadth of vision, greatness of pur- 
pose, and high ideals; whose officers 
recognize these factors and further 
them to the best of their ability. Mr. 
J. K. Orr, who first served as one 
of the board of trustees, and who has 
served as chairman of the board for 
the past fifteen years, has indeed, 
been an observer of these principles. 

Under his leadership as chairman, 
the college has made the greatest 
advancement in educational recogni- 
tion and also in material resources of 
any period of its history. He led 
three very successful campaigns for 
the college. The endowment compaign 
of 1909, for which he was responsi- 
ble, was the first organized effort of 
the kind ever tried in 4 

Agnes Scott loves. 
Orr, not only for w 
for the college in a 
for Mr. Orr himsel 
our favorite visitors @ 
ghapel are always yt 
student body and faculty. Indeed, 
college feels that no e¢easion is com- 
plete without a word of greeting from 
him. 

Although we regard Mr. Orr prim- 
arily of importance in connection with 
our college, ‘“‘Who’s Who,” and Atlanta 
consider him of great importance in 
other fields of service. 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Pi Alpha Phi Receives 
Two Challenges 


Emory and University of 
Tennessee Ask For Debates 


No Plans Have Been Made 


Pi Alpha Phi, already in the midst 
of its preparations for the annual In- 
tercollegiate Debate with Randolph- 
Macon and Sophie Newcomb, has just 
received challenges from two of the 
leading Southern colleges—Emory 
University and the University of 
Tennessee. The of the 
faculty, alumnae and student body, 


members 


who are especially interested in de- 
bating, feel that these challenges 
come as recognition of the high stand- 
ard of debating maintained at Agnes 
Scott by Pi Alpha Phi and the De- 
bating council. 

Emory University challenges us to 
a series of practice debates with their 
freshman team. Although the matter 
has not come before the council, the 
sentiment seems to be against allow- 
ing our girls to debate against any 
team which does not represent the 
university. Emory’s offer is, of 
course, merely tentative. No subject 
for the debate was suggested, and no 
definite arrangements have been 
made, ” 

Both these challenges will be care- 
fully considered at the next meeting 
of the Debating Council, and a decis- 
ion made as soon as possible, 


. 


_| Noble Arnold .... 


W. A. Bootle 
‘Bob Brewster 
Walter, Burke. .......-- 


Mercer Glee Club To 
Present Program 
November 15 


Solos, Quartet and Comedy 
Feature Program 


The Mercer Glee and Instrumental 
Clubs will jpresent the spiciest of 
musical programs in the college chap- 
el this Saturday evening, November 
15th. 

The program is divided into three 
parts. The first part is a scene on 
the campus of Mercer University, and 
represents a reception of the senior 
class of ’25. It has plenty of spice 
and musical numbers, including solos, 
quartets and comedy. 

The second part is called Musical 
Bits of 1925. It includes solos, quar- 
tets, instrumentals and a performance 
by a real Scotchman fresh from the 
old country. In this part of the pro- 
gram appears one of the outstanding 
features of the club, “Mercer’s Ten 
Kings of Rhythm,” an orchestra that 
is going to please all. 

The third part is entitled, “The Glee 
Club in Turkey,” a one act comedy 
filled with musie and wit. 

Every one come and see and hear 
the Mercer Glee Club. If you miss it 
you will just be out of luck. Tickets 
ean be secured from Glee Club Girls. 

Saturday, November the fifteenth 
at 8:30, 


The members of the Mercer 
Glee and Instrumental Clubs are as 
follows: 

Names. Home Towns, 


Hartwell 
.. Parrott 
Macon 
Se acc epetooeteg Macon 
Walterboro, S. C. 
Cedartown 


Elmer Alford 


Ed Benton 
Logan Bloodworth 


Edgar K. Cargille 
Bill Carswell 
R. E. “Parson” Chandler 
Chalmers Chapman Ludowici 
Ed Crudup Dalton 
BON DY at Hen eee ene Rene Blakely 
I. MeConnell . Toccoa 
J. Luther Drake Senoia 


Augusta 
Setar Macon 


FOS Es DPOWLYs. Ile, -<-o--cccsoesensee Atlanta 
James Dudley ..........----.-. Americus 
Lon Lamar Fleming .....-....-...-... Leah 
Ree erst: ~~~. Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Julius Johnson. ......--....s+.s-s--- Hartwell 
Ralph N. Johnson. .....-...-.-.--« Jefferson 


(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


Agnes Scott Alumnae 
eats Published 


November | 


Interesting Poems and Articles 
By Alumnae 


One of the most interesting period- 
icals published on the Campus is “The 
Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly,” 
which came out November 1. This 
contains many items of special in- 
terest on the campus, poems written 
by members of the alumnae, news con- 
cerning the alumnae _ themselves, 
among which is a report of the an- 
nual meeting held May 24, book re- 
views designed to help alumnae se- 
lect good current literature to read 
lect good current literature to read, 
and greetings to all alumnae. 

An article of unusual interest to 
the students, faculty and ‘al mnae is 
the summary of Agnes Scott’ Saacad- 
emic standing. When we con® 
recognition which Agnes Scoty re- 
ceives in all sections of America and 
quite a few foreign’ countries we can 
not feel proud enough or work hard 
enough for our Alma Mater, Agnes 
Scott has been steadily rising in the 
educational world since 1906 when it 
was chartered as a college. In 1920 
our college was placed on approved 
list of the Association of American 
Universities, an honor which gives in- 
ternational recognition to our A. B. 
degree; in 1921 graduates of Agnes 
Scott were accepted without restric- 
tion or probation to the American As- 

(Contined on Page 3, Column 1) 


Dr. Thwing To Visit 


Agnes Scott November 10-12 


Hoasc Presents “Clean 


Up Campus” 
Program 
Interesting Talks in Chapel by 


Student, Alumnae, Faculty 
and Trustees 


On Saturday morning, November 
the first, Hoase had charge of chapel 
and devoted it to promoting a spirit 
among the girls of trying to keep the 
campus clean, Every group that 
would be interested in having an 
attractive campus was represented, 
Louise Buchanan speaking for the stu- 
dnets, Miss Davis for the faculty, Miss 
Nell Buchanan for the alumnae and 
Dr. McCain for the board of trustees. 

Louise Buchanan, president of 
Hoase, declared) that although we 
could not construct such things as 
beautiful buildings, we could do our 
part in keeping the campus from be 
ing littered up by trash and papers 
that should have been thrown in the 
trash cans. 

Miss Davis, who because of a cold, 
spoke through the interpretation of 
Miss Bland, said that we do not need 
to clean up as much as to keep clean. 
She declared that our attitude to- 
ward the campus was much that of 
the Saturday night bath, that we clean 
up only for special occasions such as 
May Day and Commencement and 
let the campus go disorderly the rest 
of the year. Miss Davis is the chair- 
man of a faculty committee which 
sponsors the advancement of beauty 
on the campus, and she mentioned 


ni plans of: this eq imittee to. trans- 
plant some trees, such as dogwood,|tury Club in New York and honorary — 


on the campus. 

Miss. Nell Buchanan, representing 
an alumnae committee for the wel- 
fare of the campus, told of the in- 
terest of that organization in having 
a campus of which its members would 
be proud when returning to Agnes 
Scott. 

(Contined on Page 3, Column 1) 


Blackfriars Take In 
Five New Members 


Freeborn, McCallie, Moore, 
Stead, and Weems Chosen 


Blackfriars held its semi-annual 
tryouts on Monday night, November 
8. Quite a number of girls from the 
sophomore and junior classes tried 
out, most of the parts being taken 
from the plays of Shakespeare and 
Barrie. After careful consideration 
on the part of the judges, the follow- 
ing girls were admitted to member- 
ship: 

Frances Freeborn, Elizabeth Mece- 
Callie, Elizabeth Moore, Emily Stead 
and Mary Weems. And then their 
trouble began; for, on Friday, No- 
vember 7, initiations were held. Any- 
one who has not experienced a Black- 


friar initiation can hardly imagine the | 2 


dreadfulness of the situation. You, 
the humble suppliant for entrance, are 
blindfolded, and led into a room 
where your only impressions are those 
of blackness, and of mysterious and 
disagreeable sounds. The blindfold is 
removed, you stand before the awe- 
inspiring president of Blackfriars and 
hear your sentence. It is, of course, 
to perform some horrible, impossible 
task. A recipe for performing said 
task, together with more vivid im- 
pressions of the last initiations, may 
be obtained from any of the five new- 
ly admitted members. 

While speaking of Blackfriars, we 
may state that that organization has 
just received notice of its acceptance 
as one of the nine colleges to com- 
pete in the national intercollegiate 
theatrical tournament, which will be 
held at Northwestern University the 
latter part of December and the first 
of January, 


President of Phi Beta Kappa 
To Lecture Here 


Agnes Scott is always interested in 
having visitors—especially visitors of 
note, so the college community is de- 
lighted that Agnes Scott is to have 
Dr, Charles Franklin Thwing lecture 
and visit us on November 10, 11 and 
12. We are delighted that Agnes 
Scott is to have the privilege of hear- 
ing Dr. Thwing lecture several times 
while he is visiting us. 

Dr. Thwing has obtained so many 
degrees, held so many responsible po- 
sitions, is a member of so many ¢clubs, 
and is author of such a long list of 
books, that it takes half a page in 
“Who’s Who” merely to give a list 
of them. He secured his degree of 
Bachelor of Arts at Harvard in 1876, 
graduated from the Andover Theologi- 
cal Seminary in 1879, obtained his S. 
T. D. at the Chicago Theological Sem- 
inary in 1889 and his Litt. D. at the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1917; 
besides acquiring degrees from quite 
a few other colleges. He has been 
engaged in the work of a pastor at 
Cambridge, Mass. and Minneapolis, 
Minn.; was president of Western Re- 
serve University and Adelbert College 
from 1890 to 1921; secretary of the 
board of trustees of the Carnegie 
Foundation for the Advancement of 
Teaching from 1905 to 1921; elector 
of the Hall of Fame; vice-president 
of the Cleveland branch of the Eng- 
lish-Speaking Union; and chairman 
of the Ohio Commission of the Near 
East Relief. He is a member of the 
Authors’ Club at London, the British- 
American Club at Oxford, the Cen- 


member of the Union Club. 

His versatile mind leads him into 
numerous paths, for he is also the 
author of many books, which deal with 
education, college life, family life, and 
the ministry. Among his books are: 
“The Family”, “The College Woman”, 
“The American College in American 
Life”, “The Choice of a College’, “A 
Liberal Education and a _ Liberal 
Faith”, “The American College”, “The 
American Colleges and Universities 
in the Great War”, and “What Edu- 

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Dr. D. Clay Lilly 
To Lecture At 
Agnes Scott 


Y. W. C. A. Brings Bible Teacher 
to Agnes Scott 


We are very fortunate this year in 
obtaining Dr. D, Clay Lilly to speak 
to the students at A. S. C., under 
the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. dur- 
ing the week commencing November 
18. Dr. Lilly will speak during chapel 
hour every morning, er conduct 
services in the chapel eVery night ex- 
cept Saturday. On Sunday, November 
» he will preach at the Decatur Pres- 
byterian church, and will close his 
meetings that night in the school 
chapel, 

Dr. Lilly is prominent for many 
reasons, Besides having been pastor of 
several leading Presbyterian churches, 
he is in charge of the Lamon Mis- 
sionary Movement, which includes all 
denominations, and is chairman of the 
Stewardship Committee, whose duty it 
is to look after the raising of all funds 
for benevolences. His latest achieve- 
ment is the organization of the Reno- 
yaldo Conference. He plans to make 
this an annual gathering of twenty- 
five or thirty of the most prominent 
men of the United States to discuss 
all religious problems. Last year this 
meeting was the most interesting of 
its kind ever held in this country. Mrs. 
Lilly will come with Dr. Lilly. She 
is the daughter of the famous Dr. 
Guerrant, who founded scores of 

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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 

Mamie Shaw, ’27 
Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
Carolyn Essig, ’28 
Janet McDonald, ’28 
Martha Turner, ’28 


Dorothy Keith 
Louisa Duls 
Eloise Harris 


Julia Pope, ’25 

Clyde Passmore, ’25 
Edith Richards, ’27 
Louise Geslin, ’28 
Nellie Richardson, ’26 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 


THE STUDENT AND STUDENT ACTIVITIES. 


So much has been written recently on the subject of the place 
of student activities in the college that it is well-nigh impossible 
to throw any new light on the matter. The question is, however, 
one of vital interest in academic circles and one which invites 
expression of opinion. The problems of inter-collegiate athletics 
have assumed amazing proportions and have aroused more con- 
troversy, pro and con, than perhaps any phase of student life 
today. In a college for women this annoying question is happily 
of practically no importance. 

The activities which are of major importance in the college 
for women have this advantage—that they are more or less closely 

related to scholastic work and are, therefore, less open to criticism 
than the athletic problem. Work on College newspapers and maga- 
zines, membership in dramatic clubs, debating societies, and writ- 
ers clubs, and participation in the work of the Y. W. C. A. and 
like organizations, afford valuable experience and present excellent 
opportunities for the development of independent thinking and 
mature judgment. No one denies that work of this kind is bene- 
ficial to the student. The question, in our opinion, is how much 
importance should activities assume and how much of the student’s 
time should she devote to “outside work” in comparison with the 
time spent on the courses included in her schedule. 

A familiar refrain sung by students and graduates of our col- 
leges today voices the sentiment that activities in the final reck- 
oning are of greater worth than regular classroom work. This 
attitude is destructive of the highest ideals of education. The 
courses outlined in the college curriculum are the legitimate fields 
of intellectual development for the student. There it is that she 
should do really constructive thinking. Courses are not taught to 
be learned mechanically by unreasoning students. We learn that 
we may live better and more fully. The new facts and new ideas 
imparted to us should become parts of our very being. They con- 
stitute the ground-work on which we are to build a superstructure 
of alertness, of intellect, of tolerance of attitude, and of fair-mind- 
edness of gudgment. Contact with a truly great teacher is an 
overwhelmiag advantage in the mental growth of a student; but 
even if this is lacking, the student’s ideal is still an appreciation 
of learning for its own sake, 

Do not mistake us by thinking that we discredit the value of 
student activities in developing this attitude. But we do say that 
they are not the legitimate way of accomplishing the aim of edu- 
cation; and they become a real danger when they prevent the 
student from pursuing the normal method of training which has 
been deemed best by the most careful and most experienced edu- 
cators of our time. Every day, however, (we judge by our own 
college) activities demand more and more of the student’s time. 
She cannot hope to do her best work in the classroom and at the 
same time take an active part in the opposite side of campus life. 
A choice must be made; and the loss is great, whatever the de- 
cision may be. 

A readjustment should take place. The curriculum should be 
given the place of prime importance; and, next in importance, 
student activities should be encouraged. But they should not be 
allowed to over-shadow or in any way to impede scholastic work, 


THE 


AGONISTI 


Meeting of Pi 
Alpha Phi 


Pi Alpha Phi held its second formal 
meeting and debate Thursday night, 
November 6, The debate was on one 
of the subjects suggested by Agnes 
Scott for the Intercollegiate Debate 
to be held with Randolph Macon and 
Sophie Newcomb in the spring. The 
subject was: Resolved: That a Par- 
liamentary system would be a more 
effective system of government than 
the presidential system. The affirma- 
tive was upheld by Isabel Ferguson 
and Mary Davis, the negative by 
Pocahontas Wight and Helen Lewis. 
The decision was two to one in favor 
of the affirmative. The debate was 
unusually good and the subject is both 
interesting and debatable. The next 
debate will be held on November 20, 
and the subject will be the other sub- 
ject Agnes Scott suggested for an 
Intercollegiate subject: Resolved: That 
Japanese emigrants be admitted on 
the same basis as European nations. 

Randolph Macon and Sophie New- 
comb will present two subjects each 
and from these six the subject for the 
Intercollegiate Debate will be select- 
ed. This is to be selected by the 
twenty-second of November and the 
debates in Pi Alpha Phi will be on 
different phases of this question. 


A GLIMPSE IN THE PAST 
Taken from the Silhouette for 1916 


hough long hair has practically 
disappeared from our campus and 
though the styles have changed since 
1916, you can still find the same prob- 
lems the same things to joke about 
and the same spirit on the Agnes 
Scott campus in 1924, Though two 
generations of students have passed 
through Agnes Scott and have gone 
on to join the ranks “of those who 
have gone on before” the Agnes Scott 
student of 1924 take a look back at 
little things that have come from 
“The Last Agony” in the Silhouette 
for 1916 and you will find interesting 
things revealed there, 


AGNES’ A. B. C’s 


A—Stands for Agnes, our Alma 
Mater so dear, 
B—Stands for “Beautiful” who’s al- 


ways found quite near. 


Cc 


C—Stands for “Cutey Pie” who’s a 
sure cure for all ills. 

D—Stands for Daugherty, she pokes 
us full of pills. 

E—Stands for English themes you 
hand in every day, 

F—Stands for all the —’s who take 
home Ee. they say. 

G—Stands for Gad-abouts who go to 
all the shows, 

H—Stands for what you think when 
studying Latin Prose. 

I—Stands for Idiots—they always get 
the blame 

J—Stands for Jennie D., who gave In- 
man Hall its name. 

K—Stands for Kicks—they don’t do 
any good. 

L—Stands for how you felt when sat 
on by Miss Hood. 

M—Stands for men—they’re scarce 
around these parts, 

N—Stands for what you know when 
Chem. exam. starts 

O—Stands for Onions—We had them 
for our dinner. 

P—Stands for Practice—it makes you 
grow much thinner. 

Q—Stands for quiet—we must have 
it after lights. 

S—Stands for Sophie—she can’t beat 
A. S. C. 

T—Stands for Telephone—it never 
rings for me. 

U—Stands for Unity—it’s talked of 
much in soc. 

V—Stands for Vitality—it will not 
rhyme, O gosh! 

W—Stands for William—his common 
name is goat, 

X Y Z—Stands for you and me, we 
surely are no poet. 


Womanisms 
1. Ifa girl would practice what her 
roommate pmjaches there would be 


ee a 
1 > 


4, Flunking is as certain as college 
is uncertain, — 

5. Never argue with a man who 
talks aloud; you can do nothing with 
him, 

6. When a French teacher passes 
you you've either succeeded in bluff- 
ing her or tiring her. 

PREPAREDNESS 

As a paper of good repute, we wish 
first and always to stand for that 
which is right, and now we have come 


which is the student’s first interest and which, no matter who 
denies it, will bring more true happiness and more real strength 
to the college graduate than participation in any student move- 
ment, however worthy it may be. 

Student activities, then, in our opinion, have their place in the 
college; but their position is of secondary importance, insomuch 
as they aid the natural development of the student they are justi- 
fied; but, as soon as they hinder in any way the student’s conform- 
ing to the normal method of educational training they cease to be 
justified. In this latter case they become a positive evil and should 
be discouraged by the college authorities whose wider experience 
and more mature judgment put them in a position to understand 
the attendant danger in the student’s voluntary rejection of the 
best which the college has to offer—vVol. IX, No. 4, Agonistic. 


Agnes Scott College 


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Intercollegiate 
News 


Mercer 

For the first time in the history 
of the radio that a university has used 
its own set, Mercer will open its 
course of study to the world. Begin- 
ning Tuesday night, November 11, 
WMAZ, the Mercer station, will offer 
a series of four college courses in 
addition to a number of special musi- 
cal programs by the various campus 
organizations. Courses in literature, 
history, journalism, and religious edu- 
cation will be offered at first. As 
the classes grow, the number of sub- 
jects will be increased, Mercer author- 
ities say, and college credit may be 
given when the experiment has been 
found successful. 


Georgia Tech 

First steps toward establishing a 
“Dad’s Day” at Tech were taken by 
the Student Council of that institution 
at a meeting last Tuesday, The plan 
is to have the fathers of all the stu- 
dents at Tech come to Atlanta some 
time in the spring to the week-end 
baseball games on Friday and Satur- 
day. The object of the plan is to 
bring the fathers in closer touch with 
the college. 


After extensive investigation, Dean 
Everett W. Lord, of the Boston Uni- 
versity College of Business Adminis- 
tration, disclosed a few days ago the 
result of his extensive analysis of 
earning capacity of men with yaried 
degrees of learning. Dean Lord main- 
tains that a high school diploma 
brings its owner $33,000 more income 
eventually than a grade certificate, 
while a college education is worth 
$72,000 to the graduate. The figures 
also showed that a college trained 
man earns $105,000 more in an aver- 


age lifetime than the man who quits 
school at fourteen. 


Some interesting facts concerning 
the popularity of certain subjects have 
been obtained by the Registrar at 
Washington and Lee University, The 
ten most popular subjects at that in- 
stitution have been tabulated in the 
following order: 1, English; 2, Hy- 
giene; 3, History; 4, Mathematics; 5, 
Politics; 6, Economics; 7, French; 8, 
Spanish; 9, Business Administration; 
10, Geology. 
VGC—NNae—OOOOOO 
to a place where we, as free American 
people, must stand upon our own feet 
and show our righteous indignation! 
We have heard of preparedness in 
every form; we hear it in the fire 
alarm bell which clangs forth in the 
mystic hours; we write it upon quires 
of “test” paper; we smell it on the 
electric toaster; are we, then a people 
who believe and practice that motto 
of Preparedness, to allow such out- 
rageous oversight remain unseen as 
that which is under our very eyes? 
Can we, will we tolerate such care- 
lessness as we have evinced on the 
part of our noble army of laundry 
women? Why should we have such a 
number of pins placed in our skirts, 
our waists, our very middy blouses? 

Only this morning a very sad ex- 
ample of this barbarous practice of 
“pin pulling” was seen traversing the 
campus walks at the hour of 7:27. 
Alas, are we come to such a state 
that our very sisters must go break- 
fastless, our very roommates must fall 
victims to this dreadful outrage? Ag 
a student body, is it necessary that 
we attain that “lean and hungry 
look of a Cassius,” because of this un- 
preparedness? Let us be prepared! 
Down with the pins—we prepare no 
plaits! 

“The Last Agony.” 
Silhouette, 1916. 


Al: “There are an awful lot of 
girls that prefer not to marry.” 
Sal: “How do you know?” 
Al :“I’'ve asked them.” 
—Phoenix. 


3 


GIDDIE GOsSsIP 


Thursday Night. 


Giddy, Mr. Holt is the sweetest man 
‘you ever saw. Do you know that we 
were all just wishing for a cut and 
he gave us one at just the right time. 
He must have known how bad we 
wanted one. 
town to a show because since I don’t 
have to go to Chemistry I get through 
classes at 10:30!! Isn’t that fine? I’m 
not sure I’ll know how to act though, 
as I haven’t been to town in three 
~weeks—and that’s a long time for any 
Agnes Scott girl to stay away from 
Atlanta. 

I was so excited yesterday, Giddy, 
that I didn’t know what to do—you 
know the seniors were invested and 
one freshman came up to me and 
asked me what they were infested 
with, Everybody’s mothers and fathers 
and brothers and sisters were up here 
and I wished I’d been a senior so my 
mother would have been here too. The 
sophomores were all dressed in white 
and looked lots prettier than the sen- 
jors did—but they looked so dignified. 
Each one of them went up to Miss 
Hopkins and she put on their caps. 
Then they all walked dignifiedly off 
the stage, ’cept Ruth Johnston, ‘and 
when she got up she grabbed her hat 
and just flew off. You should have 
seen Mr. Stukes and Miss McKinney! 
I thought they were going to fall off 
their chairs they were so tickled. 

ff wish I was a senior so I could 
do like they did—and do you know 
there are only fourteen seniors with 
long hair? 

Giddy, did mother show you my 
report? I hope you didn’t notice the 
very last of it—that about Latin 
Prose. Miss Stansfield said if I tried 
harder I could pass it next semester 


And now I can go in 


HOASC PRESENTS “CLEAN UP 
CAMPUS” PROGRAM 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


Dr. McCain made known the wish 
of the board of trustees to co-operate 
in having a clean campus, and he 
urged that each student do her part. 

It does seem to be a little thing to 
put paper and trash in the trash cans, 
Tt really is a very little trouble for 
each one of us, and it makes a great 
deal of difference in the appearance 
of the campus, the happiness of the 
college community, and the opinions 
of others who visit Agnes Scott. 


AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUAR- 
TERLY MAGAZINE PUBLISHED 
NOVEMBER 1 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


sociation of University Women, And 
recently application has been received 
from a native Korean graduate of a 
Christian College in Japan, because 
the Japanese government refused rec- 
ognition of her work until she was 
trained in an American college, and 
Agnes Scott was approved by the Sec- 
retary of Labor for completion of her 
educational career. 


I stole a kiss the other night, 
My conscience feels so black 
I think I’d better do what’s right 
And put the darn thing back. 
—Aggie Squibb. 


but I just bet I'll be taking it ever 
afterwards while I’m at Agnes Soctt. 

I was over in Rebekah tonight and 
I saw a girl that looked like she had 
all her hair cut off and when I got 
closer it was Catherine Mitchell. She 
said though that she was afraid she 
was going to get bald headed and Miss 
Davis had said that bald headed wom- 
en couldn’t succeed well in business— 
so she had put some olive oil on to 
keep her hair in. Genie Perkins and 
Cephise Cartwright were doing it too 
and they looked almost like tea-hound 
boys with their hair slicked down so 
tight. 

Oh Giddy! I was almost about to 
forget to tell you about “Sat.” You 
know they named him that because 
he came and sat outside the door on 
Saturday morning. Toodles bought 
him and is going to send him home. 
Everybody’s going to be so sorry 
though, because he’s so cute and pret- 
ty and every girl on the campus 
knows him and Dr. McCain and Miss 
Hopkins. But I didn’t tell you what 
he is, did 1? Well, he’s a white little 
yellow-eyed (and they wash them out 
with borax water) furry Eskimo 
Spitz dog, and he’s just about as big 
as a football. I just wish you could 
see him—you’d want to squeeze him 
and kiss him all the time. 

Somebody’s knocking at the door 
and I'll bet I have to stop—I will— 
it’s Miss Miller and she’s going to get 
after us for hanging stockings in the 
window to dry. 

Yours, 
Aggie. 
P, S—No she didn’t.! She said she 


just wanted to tell us that our room 
was a “pride and joy”!!! 


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COLLEGE GIRLS 


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AGONISTI 


One of the most interesting fields 
of the Y. W. C. A. is that which leads 
us to contact with other branches of 
the national organization. We often 
have the opportunity of meeting “Y” 
secretaries, and, at times, students of 
other colleges, but they are all in- 
terested in the same things in which 
we are interested. 

In meeting students and discussing 
student plans and ideals, we are prone 
to forget that there are girls just 
our ages, with the same interests, as 
girls, but with entirely different oc- 
cupational interests; so the Y. W. is 
trying to bring the students in contact 
with these girls. The student indus- 
trial commission is medium through 
which this is accomplished. This is a 
commission made up »f industrial 
girls from candy factories, overall 
factories and other industrial estab- 
lishments; and students. 

This summer there was an Indus- 
trial Conference at Junaluska and a 
number of colleges were asked to 
send representatives. Agnes Scott 
was represented; and the conference 
proved to be both delightful and in- 
spirational. It is hoped that we may 
put some of the ideas gained from 
the conference into our own Industrial 
meetings, 

The first meeting of the year was 
held Tuesday, Nov. 4, in the Cabinet 
room. We had a social meeting for 
the purpose of getting acquainted. 
We had only three industrial girls this 
time, Misses Thornton and Griffin and 
Mrs. Jernigan. Mrs. Gereke, our new 
“Y” secretary, came with them. They 
had an opportunity to meet a num- 
ber of the students, however, for sey- 
eral of them dropped in during the 
course of the evening. We hope dur- 
ing the year to have many student 
visitors at our meetings for only a 
few may serve on the commission and 
the only way the others can know the 
girls is by visiting. 

We hope all our meetings can be 
as delightful as this one. Speaking 
from the student point of view, it was 


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Alumnae News 


Ruth Anderson (Mrs. Alen O'Neil) 
of the class of ’18, now living at Wins- 
ton-Salem, says her two small daugh- 
ters, Nancy, age 3, and Ruth, age 13 
months, would be delighted to corres- 
pond with other members of classes 
1943 and 1944, 


Laura Bell Stubbs, '22, is teaching 
French in Dalton, Ga. 


Llewellyn Wilburn, class of 719, is 
physical director at Y. W. C. A. in 
Nashville, Tenn. 


Helen Albright, ’24 is teaching in St. 
George, S. C. 


(Thelma Brown, ’21, had a wonder- 
ful trip abroad this summer. She 
spent two months in Paris, studying 


piano with Cortot’s first assistant, 
The rest 


Mms. Bascourret de Gorldi. 
of the time she spent in travel. 


Eva Wasson, of the class of ’23, 
has moved to Charlotte, N. C. 


Maude Foster Jackson, ’23, (Mrs. 
Ernest) is living in Cleveland, 0O., 
cataloguing private libraries and 
keeping house. Her husband is con- 
nected with the chemical department 
of Western Reserve University, 


Margaret Pruden, class of ’17, is 
head of the Latin department at Flora 
McDonald, in Red Springs, N. C. 


Alice Whipple and Elizabeth Brown, 
both of *22, will be at the Alumnae 
House for Thanksgiving. Julia Hay- 
good Cuthbertson and Fan McCaa, of 
the class of ’21, will visit us then. 


certainly enjoyed; and our visitors 
decided to meet here again, instead 
of in town, so they must have enjoyed 
it too. Where both sides are pleased 
there surely should be success and 
enthusiasm and that is what we are 
working for. 


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DR. D. CLAY LILLY TO LECTURE 
AT AGNES SCOTT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


mountain schools and missions, and 
she will be of great assistance during 
the meetings here. 

Dr. Lilly has not yet announced his 
subjects, but they will be of interest 
to all college communities. The en- 
tire student body is looking forward 
to his visit. 


MERCER GLEE CLUB TO PRE- 
SENT PROGRAM NOV. 15. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


Clarence Kinnman 
Joe Lawrence ............... 
Paul Lawrence .. 
Bob Lee 


Menlo 
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Campbell Middlebrooks ............ Macon 
Jack Murray «.......2.....2..:.. Waycross 
Andred McAlister .................... Macon 


Jimmie McGlothlin .... Anniston, Ala. 


Riley McKoy «:.:<-.2--2..— Rome 
Clay OWOn: soccer Elberton 
Rove Parkers. oS es. Americus 
Burt Parker Richardson .......... Macon 


Ralph Tabor 


Joe Tarpley .... Fairburn 
Thos, D. Wells, Jr. ......-.-...-. Richland 
R. C. “Scotty” Young .... Edinburgh, 

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ed with the choice furs for 
which Frohsin’s is so favor- 
ably known. 


$59.75 to $159.75 
to $229.75 


Frohsin's 
te: aes 


Jounson-DALLIs Co. 


Printers 


Atlanta, Georgia 


° ° 
Piggly Wiggly | 
Agnes Scott girls are always 
welcome— 

Wiggle thru and help yourself. 
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT 
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THE 


AGONISTI 


Cc 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Ollie: “That girl of yours looks like 
a Texas oil field.” 

Oshie: “Ah, you mean a million dol- 
lars?” 

Ollie: “Naw, like a wildcat specu- 
lation.” 


Jack: “I hear that it took a long 
time for Agnes Scott to get up an 
orchestra.” 

Jill: “Why was that?” 

Jack: “Not a girl would play second 
fiddle.” 


Dumb 
He: “Elman is quite a musician isn’t 
he?” 
She: “Oh, yes. 
two years old he used to play on the 
linoleum.” 


Even when he was 


She: “Before we were married you 
called me angel.” 

He: “I know it.” 

She: “But now you don’t call me 
anything.” 

He: “That shows self-control.” 


It’s the steam, not the freight, that 
makes the cargo. 


It Sometimes Happens 
Ding: “What did your wife say 
when you came home last night.” 
Dong: “The darling never said a 
word. And I was going to have those 
two front teeth pulled out anyhow.” 


“Ts a gold-digger necessarily a 
minor?” 


Ask Somebody Who Knows 
Ashes to ashes— 
Stones to Stones— 
Will we get fat? 
Eating ice cream cones. 


DAY STUDENTS PRESENT “THE 
STRING ’EM GIRL,” NOY. 8. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


Maggie—Martha Crowe. 

Susan—Lois Bolles, 

Ed—Louise Smith. 

Jack, the Hero—Isabelle Clarke. 

Country Cousin—Evelyn Allbright. 

Suitors — Alex Powell, Elizabeth 
Hudson, Louise Bansley, Julia Napier, 
Mary Cunningham. 

Chorus—Gene Dozier, Lilian Clem- 
ent, Annie Johnson, Edith Strickland, 
Geraldine Menshouse, Frances Hargis, 
Anne Choate, Hazel Huff, Lilian Le 
Conte. 


Ushers: Mary Smith, Jo Anne Cox, 


Evelyn Barnett, Marguerite Lake, 

Lora Lee Turner and Marguerite 
Rogers sold bricks for the benefit of 
our cottage. 


Lawrence’s Pharmacy 


PRESCRIPTION 
DRUGGIST 


Phones Decatur 0762-0763 
We Appreciate Your 


Patronage 
DECATUR, GA 


Rouges and Powders—even 


Elkin's Corner 


Phone Us Your Wants 
When You Cannot Come To See Us 


ICE CREAMS 
PERFUMES 


all for you. 


Elkin Drug Co. 


THE REXALL STORE 


It was Too Deep for Him 
She (sarcastically out walking): 
“This reminds me of Robert Louis 
Stevensons’ ‘Travels with a Donkey’!” 
(He: “Yes, I do feel like an author, 
tonight.” 


Rockefeller says he is grateful for 
the opportunity of being of service to 
his fellow men. You've noticed the 
stations, of course, 


The girl who thinks no man is good 
enough for her may be right, but she 
is more often left. 


The absent-minded professor jokes 
are with us again. We are thinking 
of the professor who kissed his shoes 
good-night and put his two daughters 
under the bed, 


Visitor (to butler who is showing 
him through the picture gallery): 
“That’s a fine portrait! Is it an old 
master?” 

Butler: “No, that’s the old missus.” 


‘ He Will Recover 

Prof.; “Where is Smith?” 

Fresh.: “I think he is ill, sir.” 

Prof.: “How do you know?” 

Fresh.; “Last night some Soph came 
up to his room and I heard someone 
tell him to lean over and take his 
medicine,” 


The clock 
twelve—one. 

He: “With you, dear, time does not 
only run but it flies.” \ 

She: “Don’t let that bother you; it’s 
only Dad setting the clock which ran 
down this afternoon.” 


strikes ten—eleven— 


DR. THWING TO VISIT AGNES 
SCOTT NOVEMBER 10-12. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


cation Has the Most Worth?” He is 
co-editor of the “Chapel and Hymn 
Book,” contributes to magazines, and 
speaks on educational topics. 

All these things are of interest, and 
importance but one of the highest 
honors that Dr. Thwing has had is 
president of the United Chapters of 
Phi Beta Kappa. 

Agnes Scott is delighted that Mrs. 
Thwing will accompany Dr. Thwing 
and will be the guest of the college 
for three days. Agnes Scott has been | 
unusually fortunate in obtaining lec- 
turers of note but she is extremely 
fortunate in having Dr. Thwing as 
a visitor and lecturer on the campus. 


Salted 
Almonds 


Mints 
Oandies 


Trammell’s Candy Kitchen 


109 Sycamore St. DECATUR, GA. 


Dennis Lindsey Printing Co. 
(Incorporated) 
Commercial Printing & Stationery 
PHONE DECATUR 0976 
East Court Square 
DECATUR, GA. 


Phone Decatur 1034-0385 
BURSON BROTHERS 
Expert Shoe Repairing 


538 McDONOUGH ST., DECATUR, GA. 
DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING 


the luxuries—We have them 


MR. J. K. ORR, CHAIRMAN OF THE 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


From ‘‘Who’s Who,” we learn of his 


ATHLETIC NEWS 


Thanksgiving with its match hockey 


capability as a business man. He be- game is fast approaching. Each team 


gan with H. J. Libby and Company 
in the dry goods and commercial busi- 
ness in New York in 1872. Later he 
moved to Columbus, Ga., and was con- 
nected with J. Kyle’ and Company 
from 1873 to 1883. In 1888 he found- 
ed the J. K. Orr Shoe Company, of 
which he was made president. This 
shoe manufactory has been located in 
Atlanta since 1897. 
president of the Atlanta Chamber of 
Commerce. 

We are not the only school that can 
boast of having Mr. Orr as one of 
the valued members of its board of 
trustees, because he also serves the 
George Peabody College for Teachers, 
located in Nashville, Tenn., and Mar- 
tha Berry School, located at Rome, 
Ga., in that capacity. 

“Who’s Who” also designates him 
as a Democrat and a Presbyterian, He 
is a member of the North Avenue 
Presbyterian church and is also an 
elder of the church. 

As a Knights Templar, he has won 
great distinction, He became grand 
commander of Georgia in 1890, grand 
sword bearer, grand encampment in 
1904, and regularly advanced to grand 
master, grand encampment of Knights 
Templar, U. S. A., in 1919. 

As a resident of Atlanta, Mr. Orr 
has taken very much interest in civic 
affairs. He has been a leader of cam- 
paigns for good causes to a greater 
extent than any other person in the 
city. The Y. M, C. A. always looked 
to him; and the colored Y. M. CG. A, 
building was made possible by him. 

To have among college connections 
such a man as this is not the privilege 
of many colleges. We are proud of 
this privilege and are grateful for his 
years of service as a member of our 
board of trustees. 


He is also ex- 


(Chey were sitting in the hammock. 
“Tf I should kiss you, would you 
scream?” he asked cautiously. 
“Well,” she answered coyly, “if 
you did it properly, I don’t see how I 
could.” 
—Bison. 


WELCOME 
Hewey’s Drug Store 


Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


For prompt service 
Phone 
Dec. 0640 


32 Whitehall St. | 


Now Showing the | 
Season’s Choice in | 


WStylish Hats] 


A Call Will Con- 


vince You 


ELLIS 


Millinery 


A discount given on all purchases |} 
made by Agnes Scott. 


is still fighting vigorously, for “as 
long as there’s life there’s hope”; and 
the seniors are not to have the cham- 
pionship without great opposition. It 
is strange; but each senior class for 
the past several years has won the 
championship banner, given to the 
team winning the greatest number 
of hockey games during the season. 
From the looks of things now it seems 
that this year may not be an excep- 
tion to the rule. 

Sister classes played against each 
other for the second time Friday, Nov. 
7. The athletic field was the scene 
of a typical battle between “friendly 
enemies.” Each team played its best 
and the entire contest was filled with 
excitement. The lineups were: 


Sophomores 
sucess eVier, ¢.f. 
Bull, r.i. 


Seniors vs. 
Keeler, c.f. ............. 
E. Zellars, ri. 


Wisin hi. aes Jacobsen, 1.i. 
Scheuller, r.w, ..... ... Preston, r.w. 
E. Walker, lew. ............... Norfleet, lw. 
Spivey, c.h. ............... E. Albright, ¢.h, 


. M. Johnson, r.h. 
E, Powell, I.h. 


Jackson, rh. - 
Griffen, lh, 


MCKIMNGY 5 Deds cccenzsc-ssecsesss-2 Lynn, r.f. 
Lineoln, lf. ............... M. Vowan, Lf. 
DAEGS RT peenecenssercceneenree LUCWIS,, Bik: 
Juniors vs. Freshmen 
Carpenter, c.f, —.......... J. Walker, c.f. 
M. Zellars, ri, .......... Cunningham, r.i. 
Slaughter, li, .............. Kingsberry 1.i, 
Hermance, r.w, .......... V. Carrier, r.w. 
V. Owen, Hw, ..---::-:-0:---- L. Grier, lw. 
S. Johnson, ¢h. . Riley, ¢c.h. 
BE, Jones, r.h. ..............-.--.- Thomas, rh, 
Bag? 8 PaO yo oc LeConte, 1h. 


PROCGIIB Fevers nate cocsancss Saywood, r.f. 
Higgs, lf. ......... ....G. McKinnon, Lf. 
Bowers, 2.£. ...........-..-... F', Brown, g.g, 


The Stone Mountain camp is still 
the source of much pleasure. Last 
week-end’s party consisted of: Sine 
and Theta, Maria Rose, Mac, Mae 


THE VERA BEAUTY SHOP 
Cor. Howard and Candler Streets 
Manicure, Shampoo and Facials 

Permanent Waving and Latest Bobbing 
Phone 1338 


Trio Laundry 


Dry Cleaning 


and 


Shoe Repairing 


“Atlanta’s Finest’ 


AGENTS 


Florence Perkins Anne McKay 
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“The Style Center of the South” 


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We Are Now Holding 


Remodeling Sale 


This is your chance to beautify your feet with 
the new styles at remarkably low prices. 


Erskine Irwine, Frances Bitzer, Jack 
Ralston, Susan Rose, and Peggy Rank- 
in. Bulah Davidson and Dick Sean- 
drett (I’m sure the freshmen have al- 
ready associated them with the recent. 
history of A, S. C.—they having been 
celebrities of '24) came out as guests, 
Miss Bland acted as chaperon again. | 
Each girl told her favorite jokes, and | 
many stunts were “pulled off.” Jovi- 
ality reigned supreme. 


Young Stude: “But father, clothes 
don’t make the man.” 

Poor Dad: “If they did, ’d name 
you Hart, Schaffner and Marx.” 


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The AUBURN 


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Employing a rare Hen- 
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varying the even shad- 
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to titian, as your beauty 
demands. The auburn 
Pack at Muse’s— 


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Vol. X 


Dr. Thwing Lectures To Student 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1924 


Body November 11 


Theme of Lecture, 
“Be Thinkers’’ 


Agnes Scott was delighted to have 
the privilege of hearing Dr. Thwing, 
president of the United Chapters of 
Phi Beta Kappa, lecture during the 
chapel hour, Tuesday, November 11. 

Most of us felt rather awed at meet- 
ing a man who has obtained so many 
degrees, held so many responsible 
positions, and written so many well 
known books as has Dr. Thwing; but 

} we soon found him to be very human, 
with a charming personality and a 
sympathetic understanding. He 
talked to us in a beautifully simple 
way, advising us ina rather fatherly 
manner. We forgot the greatness of 
is versatile mind and the wonder of 
his many accomplishments in our 
keen interest in what he was saying. 

In his opening words, Dr. Thwing 
¢alled to mind the significance of the 
date, November 11, and stressed the 
importance of the gift of life. The 
main theme of his lecture was ex- 

} pressed in his fervent plea, “Girls, be 
} thinkers.” He emphasized the fact 
1 that the chief purpose of our being 
here at college is to learn to think, 
for only with this ability can we get 

1 the most out of life, and nowhere will 

1 we be as likely to acquire this power 
as at college. Then Dr. Thwing dis- 
eussed truth as the fundamental basis 
of our knowledge, and urged that we 
‘try to think on those things that are 
true. He stressed the importance of 

idealism and of “putting first things 
x second things second, and ter- 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) 


Candler Prominent 
Member of Board 
of Trustees 


‘Only Member of Original Board 
Now Serving. 


Mr. Charles Miirphey Candler is an- 
other one of the very interesting mem- 
1 bers of our board of trustees. Al- 
though the student body does not 
know as much of him personally as it 
does of Mr. Orr, Mr. Candler is offi- 
‘Cially recognized as one of the leading 
citizens of our country. “Who’s Who” 
4 tells quite a lot about him. Besides 
‘being a lawyer, he is also Chairman 
‘of the Railroad Commission of Geor- 
i gia. He received an A. B. degree 
from the University of Georgia in 
41877, and was elected a member of 
Phi Beta Kappa. In 1880 he was ad- 
mitted to the Georgia bar. After 
} serving as a member of the Georgia 
] House of Representatives four terms, 
he resigned in 1909. He also served 
Jin the state Senate from 1904 until 
1906, and was appointed a member 
] of the Railroad Committee of Georgia 
Jin April, 1909, for an unexpired term 
of two years. He was re-elected four 
i terms successively, 1911-17; 1917-23, 
4as chairman of the board. He has 
il also been a member of the law firm 
of C. M. and Scott Candler since 
1923. 
] My. Candler is a Democrat, a Pres- 
4 byterian, and a Mason. Like Dr. Orr, 
he serves another college besides Ag- 
nes Scott, as a member of its board 
‘lof trustees, for he serves the Uni- 
ij versity of Georgia in that capacity. 
\) He is President of the University of 
i) Georgia Alumni Association. 


Mr. Candler was on the original 
board that was appointed when Ag- 
4 nes Scott was founded, and bears the 
4 distinction of being the only member 

who has served continuously on the 
board during the thirty-five years of 
its existence. During the earlier pe- 
riod of the institution he was very 
intimately connected with the college, 
ery unselfishly giving it much of his 
ijtime. He had a great deal of the 
correspondence about the admission 
|] of students, and he collected the fees 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 1) 


Entertainments For Dr. 
and Mrs. Thwing 


Agnes Scott, Emory and Phi 
Beta Kappa Honor Them. 


Agnes Scott has nevér had guests 
more welcome than Dr. and Mrs. 
Thwing, who were at the college No- 
vember 10-12. We know that Dr. 
Thwing is president of the United 
Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and have 
been given a list of all the degrees, 
books, lectures, and presidencies to 
his credit, but since his visit we al- 
most forget all these things in the 
personality and charm of the man 
himself. We are very glad Mrs. 
Thwing could be with us, too. 

They arrived in Atlanta Monday 
morning, November 10, and were met 
at the train by Dr. McCain, Miss 
Hearon and Mr. Stukes. They were 
brought out to the college and lunch- 
eon was served to them in Rebekah 
Scott dining hall. After reading a list 
of his honors we were just a little bit 
in awe of Dr, Thwing but he set us 
all at ease and won the hearts of 
Agnes Scott girls by his cheery re- 
sponse to our “How Do You Do!” The 
guests, after lunch, were invited to 
faculty coffee in the faculty parlor, 
after which Dr, Thwing spoke to the 
faculty in Propylean Hall. Dr. Mec- 
Cain made a very happy introduction 
and the faculty were very greatly in- 
terested in his talk. 

Later in the afternoon Dr. McCain 
invited him and his wife along with 
Mr. Stukes and Miss Hopkins for a 
motor trip to Stone Mountain. Our 
visitors were amazed at the grandeur 
and comprehensiveness \ pf the work, 
Dr. Thwing spoke of Lee” as having 
been a great and influential college 
president. That evening at 6:30 they 
were entertained at dinner in the 
Alumnae House by the faculty mem- 
bers of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Mc- 
Cain and Miss Hopkins were also in- 
vited. 

The next morning Dr, Thwing was 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Dr. I..L. Peters 
Addresses the 
Student Body 


Well Known Professor Speaks 
On Choice of a Vocation. 


The Y. W. C. A. through its Social 
Service Committee, brought a very in- 
teresting speaker to the college on 
Monday evening in the person of 
Mrs. Iva Lowther Peters, Ph. D., pro- 
fessor of Economics and Vocational 
Guidance at Goucher College. 

Dr. Peters came to Atlanta this 
week to attend the meeting of the 


Southern Women’s Educational Al- 
liance. Goucher College has granted 
her a half year’s leave of absence, for 
the purpose of making a special 
study of the vocations to which wom- 
en are best adapted. Her work in 
this line has caused her to be recog- 
nized as one of the leading authori- 
ties in the South on this subject. It 
is for this reason that the Y. W. C. 
A. was especially anxious that she 
come to Agnes Scott. 

Every girl in college, whether or 
not she is a Senior is deeply inter- 
ested in the question, “What vocation 
shall I choose? What will be my work 
in the world?” It was just such 
questions that Dr. Peters endeavored 
to answer. Her charming speech 
made a splendid impression, and her 
advice was invaluable to every girl. 

Besides bringing Dr. Peters here 
to address the student body, the Social 
Service Committee hopes to arrange 
a conference during the week, when 
any girls who desire to do so, may 
meet her personally, and talk over 
their problems with her. 


Major General O’Rien 
Addresses Students 
In Chapel 


Spiritual Significance of 
Armistice Day Emphasized. 


Agnes Scott must have been “born” 
under a lucky star, because if it had 
not been as well favored it could not 
have had the two excellent speakers 
that were here on Armistic Day and 
the day after. Just as we were be- 
ginning to feel “let-down” after Dr. 
Thwing left us, we were pleasantly 
surprised to have General O’Rien 
speak to us in chapel on Wednesday 
morning. 

General O’Rien emphasized the su- 
periority of the spiritual things over 
the materialistic. He gave definite 
instances ‘that illustrated this asser- 
tion. Once, fifteen men were needed 
on the front to “go over the top” 
at some crucial moment. His leu- 
tenant had orders to select these 
men, When they had been 
chosen General O’Rien asked the 
Heutenant how he knew these were 
the men suited to this task that re- 
quired great daring and courage. The 
lieutenant replied that these men had 
shown before that they had the spir- 
itual background that fitted them for 
any feat. General O’Rien added 
that not only in war, but in every 
department of life a spiritual char- 
acter could be relied upon. 

The general did not speak with 
much reference to himself, but we 
were able to conclude a great deal 
about him. He had a charming per- 
sonality, and with his dignity and 
calmness attracted and held his audi- 
ence in perfect attention. The little 
sparks of humor that flew out unob- 
trusively added to the interest of his 
speech, and did not mar the serious- 
ness of the thonght he was leaving 
us. 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) 


Agnes Scott Alumnae 
Clubs Being 
Organized 


Miss McKinney Goes to 
Richmond and Charlotte. 


Wednesday night Miss McKinney 
left for Charlotte, North Carolina, and 
Richmond, Virginia, where she will 
aid the Alumnae in starting Agnes 
Scott Clubs. The idea for the club 
and the request for Miss McKinney 
came from the Alumnae themselves 
who wish to be closer together and 
more in sympathy with the needs and 
program of their alma mater. Agnes 
Scott needs their help as never be- 
fore in her extensive program, and 
Miss McKinney was delighted to go 
and help. She will begin the organi- 
zation and tell the members of the 
plans and needs of the college. She 
hopes to arouse more interest by 
greater knowledge of existing condi- 
tions. 

In Charlotte, there are now twenty- 
five and possibly thirty old Agnes 
Scotters who will form the club. 
Some are graduates of thirty years 
ago, a fact which proves how enduring 
is the love for A. S. C. Miss MeKin- 
ney will visit Mrs. Reynolds Cuthbert- 
son, nee Julia Hagood, a classmate of 
Miss Bland. 

Among the fourteen girls in Rich- 
mond there are many celebrities and 
many known by the present genera- 
tion: Dr, India Hunt, who will be 
with the Mayo Brothers; Kate Rich- 
ardson (Mrs. John J. Wicker), a fa- 
mous debater with Newcomb; Hattie 
Blackford (Mrs. Williams), who 
graduated in 1903, and Nannie Camp- 
bell, of the Class of ’23. Josephine 
Logan, Beth McClure and Margaret 
McDowel are at the Assembly’s Train- 
ing School in Richmond. 

All of us wish good luck and a bril- 
liant career to these clubs. 

And we hope that many other 
Alumnae clubs in other cities will be 
formed in the future. 


Student Government Conference 


No. 9 


Meets At Vassar 


Mecer Glee Club 
Entertains College 


Presents One of the Best Musical 
Programs Here in Years. 


Philosophers teach us that our ex- 
pectations always exceed the realiza- 
tion. Any broad statement like this 
is likely to find exceptions. A ster- 
ling illustration of such an exception 
was presented to us Saturday evening. 
We expected great things of the Mer- 
cer Glee Club, and we were not dis- 
appointed. 

From the time the first note of the 
band was sounded in front of Main, 
we knew that we should not be dis- 
appointed. Girls who thought they 
would spend the evening studying, 
heard the music, shut their books, 
hunted up the admission price, and 
journeyed over to the Chapel prepared 
for an evening of exceptional enter- 
tainment. To be brief and explicit, 
they got it. 

Part one represented a reception of 


the Senior Class. Noble Arnold, 
“Sunshine” McCoy, “Parson” Chand- 
ler, and “Randolph” Hurst, who 


furnished entertainment for the gath- 
ering, proved very effective black 
face artists, and were repeatedly en- 
cored. Mac Davis, who sang, “In the 
Garden of Tomorrow,” won great ap- 
provyal, it even being conceded that he 
did as well as the performers who 
sang the same number last week in 
“The String ‘Em Girl.” The other 
selections were also very well re- 
ceived. 

Part two was somewhat more seri- 
ous in tone, Tom Wells, who has a 
sweet tenor voice, responded to an en- 
thusiastic encore with “Macheta,’” 
Ralph “Scotty” Tabor, who won ap- 
proval by his masterly piano accom- 
paniments during part one, proved 
even more popular as a soloist in the 
second part. The quartet was excel- 
lent and graciously responded to en- 
cores, “Mercer’s Ten Kings of 
Rhythm,” although not as numerous 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Freshman Class 
Elect Officers 


Anderson, 


Sydnor, McKinnon 


Elected. 


Friday, November 7, the members 
of the Freshman Class elected officers 
to steer them safely through the 
dangers of the first year of college 
life, to keep them off the shoals of 
discouragement and away from the 
snares of unscrupulous sophomores. 

Jack Anderson, the noble general 
who led us so successfully through 
the first defense against the sopho- 
more onslaught, who worked valiant- 
ly for the victory of the pitched bat- 
tle on the fatal night of October 4, 
and manfully cheered the failing spir- 
its of her followers when defeat 
stared them in the face, was selected 
unanimously to continue as major 
general of this very promising band 
of 150. In fact, no other nomina- 
tions for president were made. 

Louise Sydnor, affectionately known 
as “Chugga,” another veteran of 
Stunt Night as the A, S, C. Freshman 
who journeyed to Mars, was chosen 
vice-president. Gwendolyn McKinnon 
was elected secretary and treasurer. 
Sarah Glenn will represent the Fresh- 
men in Lower House. 

In the field of athletics, Eliza 
Rainey was elected hockey manager, 
Jo Walker captain of the hockey 
team, and Gwendolyn McKinnon ten- 
nis manager. Under their able lead- 
ership the Freshmen are developing 
finely and are going to put up a good 
fight for the pennant. 

With such a splendid corps of lead- 
ers, the Freshmen feel confident of a 
very successful year and expect to 
reach port at the end of the term 
with all flags flying. 


Mary Anne and _ Helena 
Represent Agnes Scott 


These two, our Student Government 
president and a representative elected 
for the conference by the student 
body at large, have left us for a week 
to represent Agnes Scott at this 
great gathering of importance to the 
spirit of growth in student govern- 
ment. 

Vassar is the scene of the confer- 
ence this year and is seeing great 
times with outstanding girls from all 
the prominent colleges of the North 
and East and a few from the South. 
The conference began Thursday, No- 
vember 18, and closed Saturday night. 
The main purpose of the conference 
is the promotion of the highest ideals 
of student government and the spread 
of new and useful methods and ideas 
in that field. 

For weeks ahead suggestions are 
gathered from the colleges to be rep- 
resented and prepared for discussion 
groups, or for lectures by prominent 
speakers, and when the delegates ac- 
tually gather, the field is cleared for 
real work. 

Some of the principal problems deal, 
of course, with the honor system and 
its fundamental workings, resting as 
it does, upon the individual and the 
morale of individuals collectively. The 
honor of the class in all its scholas- 
tic work, the position of the instruc- 
tor, the honor of the individual, on 
the campus and off of it, together 
with the jurisdiction of student gov- 
ernment in these affairs—all are vital. 
For upon one’s understanding of them 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 


Di. Thwing Lectures 
To Classical 
Club 


“Value of the Classics” 
Emphasized. 


What you are thunders so loud 
above your head, I think not of what 
you have done, might truly be said 
of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing. Be- 
fore he came to Agnes Scott we were 
prone to stand in awe of him, to think 
of him as a being separated from 
mere mortals, as one mighty in 
thought and deed, but after his visit 
we forgot that he was _ president 
emeritus of Western Reserve Univer- 
sity, president of the United Chapters 
of Phi Beta Kappa, secretary of the 
board of trustees of the Carnegie 
Foundation for the Advancement of 
Teaching. We came to think of him 
rather as possessed of those intrinsic 
qualities which go to make up per- 
sonality—we forgot his long list of 
accomplishments in coming to know 
the man. 

It was, then, with a great deal of 
pleasure that the members of the 
Classical Club heard Dr. Thwing 
speak on the “Value of the Classics” 
at five o’clock on Tuesday afternoon 
in the Propylean Hall. The Classical 
Department can well appreciate the 
emphasis which he laid upon the study 
of the ancient languages. He spoke of 
humanitas, the culture which might 
be obtained in this manner, and what 
is true culture but the knowledge of 
the best that has been thought and 
done in the world? And how can we 
gain this knowledge better than 
through the study of the classics? 
Knowledge of the past will enable us 
to interpret the present and to plan 
for the future, and the study of the 
ancient languages will teach us to 
face problems and solve them. How 
many problems come up in a single 
line of Virgil’s “Aeneid,” of the “Pro- 
tagoras” of Plato only the initiated 
can know. The countless opportuni- 
ties for choice teach one how to de- 
cide which is the best course of ae- 
tion. Thus one may be empowered 
to meet issues squarely and to deter- 

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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 

Mamie Shaw, ’27 
Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
Carolyn Essig, ’28 
Janet McDonald, ’28 
Martha Turner, ’28 


THE DAY STUDENTS. 


Dorothy Keith 
Louisa Duls 
Eloise Harris 


Julia Pope, °25 

Clyde Passmore, ’25 
Edith Richards, ’27 
Louise Geslin, ’28 
Nellie Richardson, ’26 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 


Tt has been said that a chain is no stronger than its weakest 
link: translating this to a college, a college is no stronger than its 
weakest group. In the majority of colleges this weak link comes 
in the Day Student Group. We are proud to say that here Agnes 
Scott has a strong link. 

It is so easy for a “Day Student” to forget that she is a part 
of the student body. Her interests are often in town, in the 
things she will do there as soon as she is free to leave classes. 
She has often the feeling that she is the college’s ‘“step-child” 
and that the college has so little interest in her that she ceases 
to try to become a vital member of the college community. 

It is recognized that this is often the relation of the Day Stu- 
dent and the college. Agnes Scott, however, is proud of the 
interest and attitude of her Day Students. There are an unusually 
large number of Day Students this year both from Atlanta and 
Decatur, but we have “quality as well as quantity”. The Day 
Students are one of the most interested, most active groups on 
the campus. 

There are “Day Student” members in the debating club, in the 
dramatic and literary clubs. There are “Day Students” on every 
athletic team. In fact the Day Students play a vital part at 
Agnes Scott. 

Three years ago the “Day Students” began their campaign for 
a Day Student Cottage on the campus. The trustees agreed to 
help them build the cottage if they would first raise three thous- 
and dollars themselves. Though this seemed a rather large task 
for college girls to undertake, the Day Students realizing their 
need for a cottage and the pleasure and profit future Day Students 
would derive from it, began a campaign. It was presented to the 
student body and bricks for the cottage were sold. Then, they 
collected old magazines and newspapers from the dormitories, they 
held rummage sales, until this fall they had succeeded in raising 
fifteen hundred dollars for their cottage. 

They are now having a campaign to raise the other fifteen 
hundred so that their cottage may be begun. The campaign began 
with the musical comedy presented by them on November the 
eighth. This was written by one of the Day Students and pre- 
sented by them. At the same time they began a campaign to 
sell bricks. Their slogan has become, “Be a brick and buy a 
brick.” The bricks are being sold for ten cents and the whole 
college community is asked to buy a brick and thereby help them 
to build a cottage on the campus which will not only be a great 
joy to them but will be one of the new attractions on the campus. 

Though we dislike the word “proud”, Agnes Scott feels jus- 
tified in saying that she is proud of the Day Students she has. 
She is glad that they are not ‘‘step-children” of their Alma Mater 
as in so many colleges. Agnes Scott is proud of her “Day Stu- 
dent” alumnae, and she is proud of those who are here now. The 
whole college community wishes them success in their campaign 
and we hope the “Day Student Cottage” will soon be one of the 
buildings on our campus. 


CALENDAR 


FOR NOVEMBER 
15-30. 


churches and is in charge of the La- 
mon Missionary Movement. The sub- 
ject that Dr. Lilly intends speaking 
upon has not been announced. The 
college community is looking forward 
to Dr. Lilly’s visit. 


Thanksgiving, the Big Event. 


T HE 


Nov. 18-15—The Y. W. C. A. is 
bringing Miss Grace Loucks, the Na- 
tional Y. W. C. A. Students’ secretary 
to the student body. Miss Loucks will 
speak both morning at the chapel 
hour and evening at prayers. Her 
theme will be the “Way of Christ.” 
The Y. W. C. A. hopes that Miss 


Loucks’ visit will mean much to the’ 


campus and will strengthen the spir- 
itual life of its students. 

Nov. 15—The Mercer Glee Club will 
entertain the college community with 
one of their interesting programs. 
This entertainment is sponsored by 
the Agnes Scott Glee Club and it is 
hoped that it will prove to be a great 
success. 

Nov. 18-22—During this entire week 
Dr. D. Clay Lilly, a prominent Bible 
teacher, will speak every morning at 
chapel. Dr. Lilly has been a pastor 

of several leading Presbyterian 


Noy, 27—The annual Thanksgiving 
dinner! The first and only holiday 
given to the students between Sep- 
tember and Christmas, is one of the 
happiest times on the campus. The 
old girls know this from past experi- 
ence, but the new girls have yet to 
enjoy their first holiday, Thanksgiv- 
ing dinner need only be mentioned to 
call before our eyes the turkey and 
cranberry sauce and other goodies 
that will be enjoyed. Then, that night 
comes the dance in the “gym.” This 
ends the holiday of gala events. 

Nov. 29—Blackfriars will make 
their second appearance. “The Neigh- 
bors,” “Joint Owners in Spain,” and 
“The Romancers,” are the names of 
the three one-act plays. Don’t for- 
get the date, for you will miss the 
most skilled acting, and artistic stag- 
ing that will be found anywhere. Re- 
serve this night for Blackfriars! 


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BLACKFRIARS TO PRESENT ITS 
SECOND GROUP OF PLAYS 
DURING THANKSGIVING 
WEEK 
“Neighbors,” “The Romancers,” “Joint 
Owners in Spain,” Chosen. 


Thanksgiving Day is an unusually 
blissful time for many reasons; first 
of all, perhaps, because it is a holiday; 
then because it means a turkey din- 
ner with cranberry sauce and Agnes 
Seott Special, and a dance in the 
gym, and a chance to exhibit that new 
green evening dress, and—I might 
enumerate for the rest of the col- 
umn. But not least among our rea- 
sons for anticipating Thanksgiving 
time with pleasure is the fact that on 
the Saturday after Thanksgiving, No- 
vember 29th, this year, Blackfriars al- 
ways presents its second program for 
the session, a group of three one- 
act plays. 

The plays selected for this group 
are unusually attractive, and present 
a wide variety of subjects, ranging 
from the depths of every-day reality 
to the sparkling heights of romance. 
They are as follows: “Neighbors,” 
“The Romancers,” and “Joint Own- 
ers in Spain.” 

“Neighbors” is the story of a vil- 
lage spinster who is suddenly in- 
formed that it is her duty to provide 
a home for a young boy, an orphan 
relative of hers. Naturally, the spin- 
ster is greatly “flustrated” and knows 
not what step to take first, until her 
kind “neighbors” arrive on the scene, 
to help prepare for the boy’s advent. 
Then comes a twist in the plot—a sur- 
prising and sentimental ending, quite 
unexpected. You will like it. 

“The Romancers” tells the fascinat- 
ing tale of two fathers, living side 
by side, who wished to join their es- 
tates by the marriage of their chil- 
dren, Sylvette, the girl, and Perci- 
net, the boy. To promote their desire, 
the fathers decide to pretend opposi- 
tion to the love of their children. The 
plan works well; Percinet and Sylvette 
fall in love. Thinking their parents 
object to their union, the two young 
things devise a plan to overcome this 
obstacle—quite an original and thrill- 
ing plan it is, too. Perhaps you 
would like to try it yourself. The 
climax of this drama, by the way, 
is all a romantic heart could desire. 

“Joint Owners in Spain” presents 
the case of two old women quite ludi- 
crous, and yet a little pathetic, who 
are inmates of the “Old Ladies’ 
Home.” Since everybody else has 
found it impossible to room with 
either of these two, the matron, as a 
last desperate chance, tries placing 
them together, though they are quite 
different types. Their reaction and 
its consequences are worked out in 
the play in a quite delightful and 
amusing manner. The casts are: 

“Neighbors” 

Miss Elisworth—Ellen Walker. 

Inez—Edith Carpenter. 

The Boy—Sarah Slaughter. 

Miss Trot—Catherine Graeber. 

Miss Abel—Mildred Pitner. 

Grandma—Frances Bitzer. 

Ezra—Ellen Douglas Leyburn. 

Miss Moran—Blizabeth Griffin. 

“The Romancers” 

Percinet—Isabel Clark. 

Staford—Florence Perkins. 

Bergamin—Ellen Douglas Leyburn. 

Pasquinot—Pocahontas Wight. 

Sylvette—Josephine Schuessler. 

“Joint Owners in Spain” 

Mrs. Mitchell—Ellen Walker. 

Mrs. Fullerton—Elizabeth Griffin. 

Mrs. Blair—Pocahontas Wight. 

Miss Dyer—Louisa Duls. 


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MR. SHANKS CHOSEN AS TWEN- 
TY-FOURTH MEMBER OF 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 


The members of Agnes Scott's 
board of trustees now number twen- 
ty-four as the man who completed the 
two dozen became a member on the 
14th of October. He is Mr. Philip 
T. Shanks, who lives in Selma, Ala- 
bama. His business is that of manu- 
facturing, but he is connected with 
several other financial enterprises. 

Sometime ago, the Alabama synod 
requested Agnes Scott to place four 
of its members on the board of trus- 
tees; and after this was agreed to 
the synod made Agnes Scott their of- 
ficial college. Reverend D. H. Ogden, 
of Mobile, Ala.; Reverend W. R. 
Dobyns, of Birmingham, Ala., and 
Mr. W. A. Belingrath of Montgo- 
mery, Ala., were the first three mem- 
bers to be chosen. At the meeting 
of the board of trustees before com- 


Cc 


DR. LACY SPEAKS ON THE IM- 
PORTANCE OF CHURCH 
AFFILIATIONS 


The Agnes Scott girls who have 
not affiliated with any church since 
their arrival in Decatur were prompt- 
ed with the desire to place their 
membership in some one of the 
churches of Atlanta and Decatur by 
the impressive talk which Dr. Lacy, 
pastor of the Central Presbyterian 
Church, of Atlanta, gave Thursday 
morning in chapel. Dr. Lacy defined 
most effectively the value of affilia- 
tion with some church, and the mean- 
ing to the individual and to the 
church, 

If one has no definite church to 
attend and one to which they feel there 
is a tie binding them, there is a na- 
tural tendency to wander from one 
church to another, and see what each 
presnts; this more or less develops 
the natural bent to criticise the mov- 
ing order of the various churches, 
and to contrast the pastors, choirs 
and different departments. One is 
also likely to lose contact with the 
current of the church denominations 
and lose interest in the activities. If, 
however, she enters whole-heartedly 
into the church, she will go home 
closer to her home church and varry 
on continuous activity instead of that 
which has been broken by a nine 
months lapse. “ 

The interest manifested on the 
part of the young people in the 
church means a great deal to the old 
people, They see younger hands come 
in to take up the work they have 
been doing for so many years, and 
feel that now they can leave this 
work in the competent hands of the 
younger generation. 

The church affiliation of the 
Agnes Seott girls means much also 
to the young people already in that 
church, These girls come into the 
churches and take in part the vacant 
places left by the boys and girls who 
have gone away from that church to 
college. It also is a means of keep- 
ing the minister young and alive, of 
making him take more interest in 
his work, and of making him feel 
that he has a part in ministering to 
the needs and to the life of the Agnes 
Scott girls. 

In short by forming some ties with 
the churches of Atlanta or Decatur 
the college girls find an excellent 
church home and many valuable 
friends, and go back home better fit- 
ted to carry on the work there. 


mencement last year, Mr. Shanks 
was nominated as the fourth, and 
his nomination was ratified this Oc- 
tober, 

Mr. Shanks is an elder of the 
First Presbyterian church in Selma, 
and one of the most prominent 
Presbyterian laymen in the state. He 
is one of the well recognized speak- 
ers on Christian subjects in the South, 
and it is in this capacity that he first 
became acquainted with Agnes Scott, 
for he was the guest of Dr, Gaines 
when he spoke in Atlanta. He liked 
Agnes Scott and Agnes Scott liked 
him. It is generally considered that 
the choice of Mr. Shanks as a member 
of the board of trustees is a very 
happy one. 


The jokes in the funny papers 
would be the only things Adam would 
recognize if he even now were to come 
back to earth. 


Intercollegiate - 


News 


Under the auspices of the Alumnae 
Association the prospect 
$15,000 endowment fund at Chow- 
an College is nearing its completion. 
In the past two years the number of 
library books have been increased 
seventy per cent. One of the trus- 
tees of this institution has pledged 
one-tenth of his income to the en- 
dowment fund. A _ faithful friend, 


found in the personage of the jani- 


tor, has proved his attachment for 


the college by making a donation of 


one hundred dollars. 


Two honorary fraternities have re- 
cently been installed at the Presby- 
terian College of South Carolina. 
Theta Pi Epsilon admits students 
from each of the major sciences, 


Chemistry, Biology, Physics. Lambda 


Phi Gamma is a new organized group 


of musicians and admits only those 


interested in the progress and the 
improvement of the musical world. 


Prof.: Name a 
tragedy in four acts. 
Stude: Cram, Exam, Flunk, Trunk. 


—Exchange. 
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of the. 


The fact that such colleges as Am- — 
herst, University of Virginia, Uni- — 


versity of Pennsylvania have declined 
challenge for debate against the 
team at Washington and Lee places 
the latter in an estimable forefront. 
We wish them success in other con- 
tests with colleges in the east. 


Professor F. L. Deudy, professor of 
public speaking and assistant of Eng- 
lish at Davidson, has resigned to take 
up duties as business manager of 
the “Smart Set,” a popular New York 
periodical. 


Successful experiments in hypno- 
tism were performed last week by 
Ruben Taylor, of Oglethorpe Uni- 
versity, in the psychology class, At 
the class period three out of five 
experiments were successful, and 
since that time practically all have 
been satisfactory. 


The “Agonistic” 
nowledge the 
changes: 

“Key-Notes” — Kidd-Key College 
and Conservatory, Sherman, Texas. 

“The Chowamian’—Chowan Col- 
lege, Murfreesboro, S. C, 

“Erskine Mirror”—Erskine 
lege, Due West, S. C. 

“The Spokesman”—Greenville Wio- 
man’s College, 

“The Bull Dog”’—The 
Charleston, S. C. 

“Alumni News”—Wittenburg Col- 
lege, Springfield, Ohio. 

“The Campus Quill’—Bessie Tift 
College, Forsyth. 

“The Sullins Scoop’—Sullins Col- 
lege, Bristol, Va. 

“The Flash-Light”—Searcy, Ark. 


wishes to ack- 
following new ex- 


Col- 


Citadel, 


Students at North Carolina College 
for Women have been fortunate in 
securing an engagement from the 
renowned pianist artist De Pachmann 
who is making his final musieal tour 
of the United States before returning 
to his native land. De Pachmann has 
not appeared in this country for 
more than twelve years. 


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AGONISTIC 


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GIDDIE GOSsilP 


Thursday night. 

What do you think, Giddy? I've 
got a date just day after tomorrow! 
Ym so excited I can hardly exist. 
You know I told you I was pretty 
sure I’d have one some day—and sure 
enough, I have. I won’t tell you his 
name, because I’m not real sure of it 
myself, yet. You see, he’s one of the 
boys I met at that Methodist party 
that night, and I’ve kinda got his 
name mixed up—I met so many, But 
anyway, he’s coming and I can hardly 
wait. If it wasn’t for the hockey 
game tomorrow I know I’d never be 
able to live through four classes till 
Saturday. 

Giddy, I was so embarrassed in His- 
tory I this morning I nearly went 
through the floor. I thought I knew 
my lesson but the very first thing 
the teacher did was to say: “Now, 
Miss Aggie (she’s gotten to where she 
alls me by my first name), can you 
describe the physical system of 
Charlemagne for us?” And I didn’t 
know it. Giddy, it was a-wful. And 
right after that she said, “Well, Miss 
Hooston, will you describe the foodal 
system for us”—and I knew that 
one so good. If she’d only asked me 
that. 

I told you about Mr. Holt giving us 
‘a cut, didn’t I? Well, they’ve been 
getting so many in the English de- 
partment that it (I mean giving cuts) 
spread to the History One and now 
—so Courtenay Wilkinson told me— 
they’re afraid there’s going to be an 
epidemic of them on the campus. An 
“epidemic” sounds serious, doesn’t it, 
but I for one wish they would have 
one. 

The funniest thing happened this 
week that you’ve ever heard of. I 
happened to hear some Sophomores 
talking about it beforehand so I knew 
what it meant. 

Somebody told Edna Ackerman that 
she was looking kinda pale and 
peeked and looked mighty like she 
had the C. S. She didn’t want to ap- 
pear ignorant and not know what it 


BER OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


and paid the bills. When janitors 
were away, he sometimes even made 
fires and worked wherever he was 
greatly needed. 

In 1882 he married a daughter of 
Colonel Scott, and has always lived 
across the street from the campus. 
Therefore he has had the opportunity, 
more than any of the other members 
of the board, of seeing the college and 
watching its progress. 

He has served on some of the most 
important committees of the board. 
Besides being a member of the Com- 
mittee on Nominating Trustees, he is 
now also Chairman of the Executive 
Committee, and chairman of the very 
active and important Committee on 
Buildings and Grounds. He had much 
to do with the supervising the build- 
ing of Inman Hall, the Library, and 
Science Hall. On the first endowment 
campaign in 1909, he acted as treas- 
urer. He has two daughters who are 
Agnes Scott Alumnae. 

Mr. Candler is the son of Mr. Mil- 
ton A. Candler, who was a member 
of Congress and was famous in the 
ehurch and state. His father was also 
a member of our board of trustees as 
long as he lived. ~ 

While a member of the Georgia 
House of Representatives, he was one 
of the leaders who put the prohibition 
measure through in Georgia. He is 
probably the best posted man of 


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was, so she went down to ask Dr. 
Sweet if she really did have it. Dr. 
Sweet wasn’t there so Miss Daugh- 
erty looked at her tongue and told her 
yes she had a bad case of it—bumps 
on her tongue and everything, but 
she thought she’d soon get over it if 
she were real careful. Then Edna 
found out that C. S. meant Christmas 
Spirit—I wonder how she felt. 

They’ve got a new pet somewhere 
on this campus but I don’t know 
where they keep it. Guess what ’tis? 
A guinea pig. That’s a funny thing 
to have as a pet. I'd be scared it 
would bristle out if I got very close 
to it. I guess it’s pretty tame, tho’, 
because they’ve been puncturing it— 
you know, giving it a shot. Bee 
Keith told me about it. She said she’d 
been in the infirmary and Dr. Sweet 
wouldn’t let her come out because she 
was afraid she had diphtheria—so 
they put some of the germs in the 
guinea pig and told Bee that if the 
little thing lived for three days she 
could leave the infirmary—but if it 
didn’t she’d have to stay down there. 
Wouldn’t you hate to have to depend 
on an untrustworthy guinea pig to 
get out of such a place? But the 
little pig is still living and Bee got 
out today. 

Guess what? Frances Tennent and 
Mildred Jennings have gone into the 
interior decorating business. They 
haven’t as yet got a house to begin on 
so they used Frances’ room. This aft- 
ernoon they moved the furniture and 
fixtures in every possible position. 
They must have had a hard time, 
either in getting anything to suit 
themselves separately or together, be- 
cause they spent the whole afternoon 
at it. I’d hate to room underneath 
her—she might get in a decorative 
mood some night about 10:30 or 11:00 
—you know she’s a senior! 

GOOD NIGHT!! Giddy, do you 
realize that it’s nine o’clock and I 
hayen’t done my Latin prose? 

Yours in spite of all Latin, 

AGGIE. 


Georgia and the country on buildings, 
public utilities, and other corpora- 
tions. Efforts have been repeatedly 
made to get him to run for United 
States Senate. He is the sort of ma- 
terial that would make a constructive 
statesman. 

Thus, Mr. Candler has accomplished 
many great things, not only for our 
college, but in other fields of activi- 
ty. The student body feels greatly 
interested in him, and wishes he would 
come to see us more often. 


DR. THWING LECTURES TO STU- 
DENT BODY NOVEMBER 11 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


tiary things third.” 

The message that Dr. Thwing 
brought to us was one that will not 
be quickly forgotten, but that will 
furnish material for further medita- 
tion, 


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MERCER GLEE CLUB ENTER- 
TAINS COLLEGE. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


as the members of the Howard Or- 
chestra, performed fully as well, (in 
the opinion of this scribe)—even bet- 
ter, as regards jazz numbers. Time 
and again they were encored by the 
captivated audience, which could not 
get enough. 

The scene of part three was laid 
in Turkey. The skit was very clever, 
having to do with the escapades of 
the club in the country of the “In- 
sultin.” 

The director of the club, between 
parts, expressed his appreciation of 
the reception Agnes Scott was tender- 
ing Mercer. He said he did not know 
whether it was because we were kind- 
hearted, or whether we were really 
enjoying the program. Let him rest 
assured that we were really enjoying 
it, for this was the best Glee Club 
performance that has been presented 
at Agnes Scott in a college genera- 
tion. 

After the conclusion our Glee Club 
entertained Mercer’s in Rebekah Scott 
at an informal reception. 


Part One. 
Time—Present. 
Place—Campus of Mercer Uni- 
versity. 


Oceasion—Reception of the Senior 
elass of 1925. 


President of the class—W. A. 
Bootle. 

Members of the class—Messrs. Mc- 
Glothin, Davis, Wells, Lawrence, 


Cargill, Olbon, P. Lawrence, Alford, 
Brewster, Fleming, Drake, Murray, 
Carswell, Young, R. Johnson, J. John- 
son, Chapman. 

Under-Graduate Class Entertainers 


—Messrs. Arnold, McKoy, Chandler 
and Hurst. 
Musicians — Tarpley, Tabor, D. 


Davis, Dudley, Parker, Benton, Me- 
Allister, Lee and Burke. 

At intervals during the program the 
following numbers will be rendered: 

1—Darling Nellie Gray—Club. 

2—March of the Guard—Club. 

3—Let Me Call You Sweetheart— 
Jimmie McGlothin. 

4_Tf You Don’t Believe I’m Leay- 
ing Count the Days I'm Gone—Noble 
Arnold. 

5—Pal Of My Dreams—Paul Law- 
rence. 

6—Red Hot Mama—Riley MeKoy. 

7—In the Garden of Tomorrow— 
Mace Davis. 

8—How Come You Do Me Like You 
Do—“Parson” Chandler. 

9—JI Wonder What’s 
Sally—Clay Olbon. 
10—Go Long Mule—‘Randolph” 
Hurst. 

Grand Finale—Alma Mater—Club. 

Part Two 

1—(a) Foresters’ Song; (b) Mu- 
sical Trust; (c) When Chloe Sings a 
Song—Club. 

2—The World Is Waiting for the 
Sunrise—Tom Wells. 

8—Bugle Song—Wells, Davis, Al- 


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The Y. W. has had the pleasure of 
having Miss Grace Loucks from the 
national board-—as its guest for a 
number of days, from November 13th 
to 17th. 

Miss Loucks has taken as her espe- 
cial interest the solving of the many 
problems which face our campus and 
our Y. W. C. A. Among these are 
discussion groups, vocations and 
creating personal contact between the 
association and the individual. We 
hope we will be able to solve many 
questions which have perplexed us, 
and carry out the suggestions and 
ideas she has brought. 

One thought which she has left 
with us is the significance of the Y. 
W. C. A. with especial emphasis on 
young, Christian and association. 
Miss Loucks talked at chapel Fri- 
day morning; to the discussion group 
leaders Friday afternoon; at chapel 
Saturday and at Y. W. Sunday. We 
feel that we have gained a great deal 
from these talks and from contact 
with Miss Loucks, and we hope she 
will be able to visit us again soon. 

Sunday, November 23rd, is the day 
for our industrial program. We hope 
to have one of the industrial girls 
from the Student-Industrial Com- 
mission to talk to us; and we hope 
also to have some of the industrial 
girls as visitors; so the students are 
urged to come ani meet the girls 
after the meeting so they will feel 
at home and want to return often. 


ford, Bootle. 

4—Bits of Classic 
Masters—Ralph Tabor. 

5—Mercer’s Kings of Rhythm 

6—Men of Harlech—Club. 
Part Three 
“The Glee Club in Turkey” 

Place—The Garden of Allah. 

Time—Present. 

In a Gondola—Club. 

Characters as they appear: Jack 
Silver, Gus Bootle; Freddie Smith, 
Joe Tarpley; Terry O’Neil, Jimmie 
McGlothlin; Scotty, Ralph Tabor; 
Charley, Jack Murray; Bobbie, Lon 
Fleming; Jimmie, Luther Drake; Al 
Cher (proprietor of Hotel), Ralph 
Johnson; Geo. Washington Abraham 
Lineoln Jenkins, “Parson” Chandler; 
Turkish Girls, Joe Lawrence, Bill 
Carswell; Guards of the Harem—E. 
K. Cargill, Julius Johnson and Chal- 
mers Chapman; Sultan, Riley McKoy; 
Susie Jenkins, Noble Arnold; The 
Victim, C. G. Alford. 


from the Old 


MAJOR GENERAL O’RIEN AD- 
DRESSES STUDENTS IN 
CHAPEL 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


Perhaps Armistice Day has meant 
more to us this year on account of our 
having a great scholar speak to us 
one day and a great general speak 
to us the next day, giving us a deep- 


Alumnae News 


Ruth Scandrett, ’22, was a visitor at 
the Alumnae House last week. 

Mrs. Donald Hastings (Louise 
Brown, ’23) is making plans for a new 
house to be built in the spring on 
Hastings’ farm about 28 miles from 
Decatur. 

Margaret Ransom, ’23, is working 
with the Retail Credit Company in 
Atlanta. 

Quenelle Harrold, ’23, Mary Evelyn 
King, ’24, and Ruth Evans ’22, are 
planning to be at the Alumnae House 
Thanksgiving. 

Miss Louise McKinney left Wednes- 
day night for Charlotte and Rich- 
mond where she will help in the estab- 
lishing of Agnes Scott Alumnae 
Clubs. She will be the guest of Julia 
Hagood Cuthbertson, ’20, in Charlotte 
and Nannie Campbell, ’23, in Rich- 
mond. 

Miss Hopkins, Fannie G. Mayson 
Donaldson, *12, and Nell Buchanan, 
’22, are planning to go to Marietta for 
the first meeting of the Marietta 
Alumnae Club. While there they will 
be the guests of Aimee D. Glover 
Little, ’21. 

Emma Jones Smith has recently 
been in Decatur on account of the 
death of her mother. 

Dr. and Mrs, Thwing were guests 
at the Alumnae House last week. 


er meaning of its significance by em- 
phasizing the part that spirituality 
has played and will play at all times. 


The Break. 
Hal: “They say, dear, that people 
who live together get to look alike.” 
Martha: “Then you must consider 
my refusal as permanent.” 


NVARIABLY the 
l ensemble costume — the 
frock with the coat to 
match—is the choice of the 
College Miss for practically 
every occasion, formal or in- 
formal. And every model 


in this marvelous collection 
has the Paris manner! 


As usual—prices are always 
moderate—at Frohsin’s. 


$39.75 1. $1 98.75 


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Graceful, Comfortable, 


Modish. 


Altogether Attractive. 


Black Satin 
and Blonde Satin. 


$13.50 


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Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Tit For Tat. 

Abe: “Fadder, ven I was in New 
York a fellow on a corner charged 
one dollar apiece for watching doves 
on a skyscraper which didn't belong 
to him.” 

“Ach, Abe, he swindled you! 
many doves did you see?” 

“Ah, fadder, dat’s where I fooled 
him. I told him I only saw fifteen 
and I counted twenty-five.” 


How 


Agnes Scotter: “I want permission | 


to be away three days after the holi- 
day vacation.” 
Dean: “Oh, you want three more 
days of grace?” 
Agnes Scotter: 
days of Henry.” 


“No, three more 


First Girl: “Were you caught in 
the rain?” 


Second Girl: “No, in Main Hall,” 


Song of a College Boy. 
“Late to’ bed, 
And early to rise, 
Keeps the dear brothers 
From wearing your ties.” 


First Dark Member: “Is’e a peace- 
maker, brother.” 

Second Dark Member: “Go to, cul- 
lud man, you's nothin’ but an Eb- 
saxopho.” 

First D. M.; “Well, I promote har- 
mony, doesn’t I?” 


Orlando: “Sweet Orcival, I fail to 
make Progress.” 

Orcival: “Then I ask thee, Orlando, 
why not call in a couple of Pilgrims?” 


It Ain’t So. 
“A student, whose marks need a raise, 
Has found out a girl’s winning ways. 
He wears co-ed clothes 
And powders his nose, 
And now he gets nothing but A’s!” 


He: “How are you going to vote, 
my dear?” 
She: “In my green velvet walking 


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suit with a hat to match.” 


Wonder if our professors feel this 
way about it! 

Prof. (giving a lecture): “I don’t 
mind if a student looks at his watch 
once in a while, but what gets me is 
to see someone take out his watch, 
shake it a few times and then put 
it up to his ear.” 


“Yep, we are like cars. ’'S’funny 
how many Flivvers have big horns.” 


A Cruel Blow. 
He (talking to his girl over tele- 
phone): “May I ask where you are?” 
She (in response): “Yes, near the 
lake. Drop in.” 


Famous Sayings. 
“The modern Romeo usually has 


an empty purse because of what 
Juliet.” 
Famous Falls—Niagara, Rome, 


Babylon, Prince of Wales, Albert B. 


“A man who gets rattled has a 
screw loose.” 


Early Birds. 
Judge: “Have you ever been up 
before me?” 
Prisoner: “Why, I don’t know. At 
what time does your honor usually 
get up?” 


STUDENT GOVERNMENT CON- 
FERENCE MEETS AT VASSAR 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


one’s conception of student honor and 
student government largely rest. 
The relation of faculty and student 
government, the problem of the fresh- 
man, relations of the new and old stu- 
dents, privileges of upper classmen 
and a variety of other equally im- 
portant subjects came before the con- 
ference and were discussed and 
adapted to the needs of widely differ- 
ing colleges. The organization and 
power of student government. differs 
greatly in different colleges but by 
ideas, 
each organization profits and the spir- 
it of student government grows; and 
“carries” on to wider usefulness. 


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Rouges and Powders—even the luxuries—We have them 
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THWING LECTURES TO 
CLASSICAL CLUB 


DR. 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 
mine what method will bring about 
the best solution of the question. As 
life is full of problems which must 
be worked out by each individual, a 
study of the classics is decidedly ad- 
vantageous, 

The classics are also valuable in the 
formation of a literary style. They 
afford a background for rhetorical 
expression that nothing else can give. 
Gibbon, Newman, and Stevenson may 
be cited as examples of authors whose 
style has been enriched by associa- 
tion with the classics. Translations, 
both oral and written, are excellent 
practice for moulding the expression 
of the would-be author. 

Since such a man as Dr. Thwing 
puts his indelible stamp of approval 
4apon the classics, we canno: be leit 
in doubt as to their vabie. Latin 
and Greek students may realize that 
the many hours of struggle with 
Cwer ard Elato have not been spent 
in vain, bur are a prepara’ty. for life 
ar} its uwials and tribulacions. We 
have learned from a man of experi- 
ence that the classics may be made 
a vital force in the life of each indi- 
vidual. 


ENTERTAINMENTS FOR DR. AND 
MRS. THWING 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


the speaker at our chapel exercises. 
He seemed very deeply impressed by 
the service in all its phases. His lec- 
ture was on the value of real think- 
ing and by the faces of our girls as 
they marched out of chapel we be- 
lieve it had the desired effect. After 
chapel he and his wife were taken out 
to Emory. Here Dr. Thwing gave a 
lecture, after which lunch was served. 
Emory people were charmed with Dr. 
Thwing, his wife and his lecture. 
At 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon Dr. 
Thwing spoke to the members of the 
classical department of Agnes Scott 
in Propylean Hall. That evening the 
Phi Beta Kappa’s of Atlanta and the 
college community gave a banquet in 
their honor at the Georgian Terrace. 
Dr. Thwing spent Wednesday morn- 
ing in looking over the campus and 
equipment of the college. At one he 
was entertained at luncheon by the 
trustees of the college at the Capital 
City Club. Dr. Thwing sincerely con- 


gratulated the trustees on the aim, de- 
velopment, and work of the college. 
After a short drive to points of inter- 
est around the city they left at 4 
o’clock for their home in Cleveland. 
Dr. Thwing was enthusiastic in his 


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We had neyer thought of accusing 
Luey Winn of having  burglaristic 
tendencies, but judging by what she 
herself said we are very much afraid 
that some day she will develop into 
an efficient second’ story man. To 
quote her, “I had always wanted to 
know how to jimmy a window but 
had lived in ignorance until one day 
in the theater across from the How- 
ard they showed some pictures which 
told very clearly how it was done. 
I certainly was glad for I wanted to 
know.” Lucey should not have to use 
the steps now to reach any class on 
the second or third floor. 

If some of you have not had all 
your leisure taken up with studying 
but have deemed it a rather amusing 
but hazardous experience to fall in 
love, you are warned against such an 
undignified course of action. The 
day students have decided that it is 
very improper so to fall, One Fri- 
day at one thirty- a number of day 
students who were amorously in- 
clined, potentially at any rate, gather- 
ed around the tennis court behind the 
library to hear a debate on a subject 
that has received some attention. The 
exact title of this argumentative dis- 
course was: “Resolved, That It Is 
Proper for Juniors to Fall in Love.” 
(We can’t help but wonder whether 
Juniors are more susceptible than any 
others, but that is beside the point.) 
The affirmative was upheld by Isa- 
pelle Clarke and Mary Knox, both of 
whom offered powerful arguments for 
their side; the negative had for its 
supporters Elizabeth Chapman and 
Rosalie Wiooten, who surpassed De- 
mosthenes in their oratorical abilities. 
The affirmative attempted to prove 
thaat being in love was a practical 
demonstration and living out of facts 
learned at. Agnes Scott. (We would 
like to know in what courses those 
facts are contained.) Misses Chap- 
man and Wooten proved—at least to 
the satisfaction of the judges—that 
being in love is detrimental to a 
Junior from the view point of health, 
education, individuality and propriety. 
If you are a Junior and still insist on 
being in this forbidden state, it might 
be wisest for you either to drop back 
to a Sophomore or skip a year, and 
join the ranks of black gowned be- 
ings, but best of all don’t tempt provi- 
dence or the fates with having any 
unnecessary heart beats. The judges 
who rendered their honorable decision 
in unanimous decision for the nega- 
tive side were Margaret Lotspeich, 
Edna Volberg and Ida Landau. 


praise of the college and we believe 
that he was really impressed. To 
us his visit was a huge success and 
we just hope he liked us as well as 
we liked him! 


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ATHLETIC NEWS 


Zip! Bing! There goes the ball, 
Don’t you hear the tennis call? 
Come on out, girls, have some fun, 
The tournament has now begun. 
Sign up at once, if you haven’t yet, 
Help your class to win the set, 
And even if you lose the game, 
You've shown the spirit just the same. 
Don’t put it off but sign up now, 
You will eventually, why not now? 
Dorothy Owen. 

It would seem, according to all ap- 
pearances, that tennis is the least im- 
portant sport on the campus; for in 
the past, girls have signed up very 
slowly, if at all. Most of these, more- 
over, did not find time to play the 
match off. At other colleges, tennis 
is of equal, if not greater importance 
than other games. It is unfortunate 
that we should slight it so here. It 
is encouraging, however, to see how 
many girls have signed up this year. 
Come on, girls, this is a better start 
than we’ve had for the past two 
years; let’s push it through, 

For the Seniors and Juniors are 
left only the few short weeks before 
Christmas; so, when we sing, “Four 
more weeks till vacation,” let’s re- 
member this also limits the time of 
playing tennis for the upper class- 
men. 

The only thing necessary is for 
each individual to be determined to 
play off her game, or games, and 
then the tournament will go through 
with flying colors. 


“Yes, Neurasthenia, the first track 
rooter, was a hurdler who tripped and 
landed on his nose.” 


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Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1924 


No. 10 


Blackfriars Choose “The|Meeting of Student\Dr. Lilly Holds Week of Services 
Conflict” For Intercollegiate 


Con 


Nine Colleges to Present 
Plays at Northwestern 
University 


Blackfriars has definitely chosen 
the play which it will present in the 
inter-collegiate contest to be held at 
Northwestern University the last of 
this December. The play is “The Con- 
flict” involving three characters, a 
mother, her elder daughter, her! 
younger daughter, and a twelve-year | 
old son. Miss Gooch has selected) 
three different casts, and is training 
all of them continuously. At a stat- 
ed time, each cast will present the! 
play before competent judges, and the’ 
four girls interpreting the four va- 
rious roles best will be chosen to con- 
stitute our final dramatic team. 

As this is to be Blackfriars’ first 
performance “abroad,” and as the na- 
tional intercollegiate theatrical con- 
test represents the only intercolle- 
giate competition, other than debat- 
ing, in which our college participates, 
Blackfriars is most anxious to make 
a favorable appearance, and no ef- 
forts will be spared in accomplishing 
that end. The prize, too, is not neg- 
ligible, being a loving cup and two 
hundred and fifty dollars. Since our 
dramatic society has excellent mate- 
rial and direction, and the casts are 
working tirelessly, we see no reason 
why Blackfriars should not stand an 
equal chance with the other eight col- 
leges which are to participate in the 
contest. 

(Coutinued on Page 4, Column 2) 


Hr t.. L. Peters 
Addresses Students 


“Vocational Guidance” Subject 
of Her Lecture 


A woman’s college is always proud 
to have a woman speaker to address 
its community, and, since Agnes Scott 
is not out of the ordimary, she wel- 
comed Dr. I. L. Peters, Ph.D., pro- 
fessor of Economics and Vocational 
Guidance at Goucher College. The 
Social Service committee of the Y. 
W. C. A. was fortunate in securing 
Dr. Peters as a speaker, on Monday 
afternoon, November 15. 

Dr. Peters gave an interesting talk 
on the development of vocational 
guidance, a subject comparatively 
new to most of us and this fact made 
the lecture unusually valuable. 

Especially gratifying was the state- 
ment that at the last conference held 
at Goucher of the Vocational Board, 
Harvard College asked permission to 
send a representative to sit in con-, 
sultation. This instance is merely an 
addition to the accepted truth that 
there are as many women leaders of 
new organizations, such as this, as 
men. The vocational guidance is now 
recognized as an important depart- 
ment through which more fields of 
new work for women are found than 
there are applicants to fill them. 

During the whole of her lecture, 
Dr. Peters proved the necessity of a 
college education for any branch of 
work, making use, as an instance, 
of a call during the great war for col- 
lege graduates, or those who had had 
college experience as the heads of 
various “kitchens” in France. 

Emphatically and convincingly did 
Dr. Peters persuade us to consider the 
importance of the vocational guidance. 

Dr. Peters made such a favorable 
impression that we were delighted to 
know that she would be the guest of 
Dr. Sweet the next week-end. From 
November 22 to 24 Dr. Peters held 
individual conferences with our girls, 
especially with juniors and seniors, 
in order to help as much as she could 
in giving advice with regard to the 
vocations that they are choosing. 


test 


Miss Wolford 
Addresses Students 


Many Positions Open To College 
Trained Women 


Miss Wolford, of the Georgia Col- 
lege Students Placement Bureau, 
which is situated in Atlanta, ad- 
dressed the students Saturday morn- 
ing in chapel. This agency was 
founded in Atlanta last spring by 
Mr. Wolford for the purpose of secur- 
ing positions for college students who 
do not wish to teach. It has always 
been more difficult for girls to find 
such positions in the past. Women 
were generally faced with the alterna- 
tives of marrying some mediocre man 
or becoming dried up “old maids.” 
Now, however, there are almost as 
many openings for women as there 
are for men, openings which allow 
women to continue their development. 
Employers prefer, for such positions, 
college trained people, but did not 
know how to secure them. The Bu- 
reau purposes to bring together the 
two. 

There are several things which em- 
ployers always like to know in ad- 
vance about applicants. Their men- 
tal ability, the marks they made while 
in school, the way in which they dress, 
their neatness and efficiency, their 
character, poise, the impressions they 
make on meeting people, are some of 
these. This record is obtained by the 
agency and sent to the prospective 
employer, who lair interviews the 
applicant. The applicants are always 
interviewed first by someone at the 
agency, and Miss Wolford states that 
the impression they gain generally 
agrees with that of the employer. 
If there is some obstacle in the boy 
or girl’s manner which prevents him 
or her from securing a position, he 
is helped to overcome it, very often 
with the result that he later sue- 
ceeds in the very place where he for- 
merly failed. 

Miss Wolford says that one of the 
important things for applicants to do 
is to decide as definitely as possible 
just what kind of position they want. 
This definiteness makes a better im- 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


Dr. Parker To Lecture 
At Agnes Scott 


Sociology Department Brings 
Noted Speaker For the College 


On Friday of this week Agnes Scott 
is to have the pleasure of hearing 
Dr. Valeria H. Parker, M.D., lecture 
on “What the Policewoman Has Ac- 
complished.” 

Dr. Parker is in Atlanta this week 
speaking before the Institute on So- 
cia] Hygiene which is meeting at the 
Central Congregational Church. The 
meeting and work of the Institute is 
sponsored by all the churches of At- 
lanta through their committee of 
church co-operation. She is an offi- 
cial of the American Social Hygiene 
Association, and is especially well 
known for her splendid and progres- 
sive work with delinquent girls and in 
the juvenile courts of our country. 
At present she is working with the 
Department of Protective Measures 
of the Association. 

The Department of Sociology is 
bringing Dr. Parker to the college, 
with desire that the students may be 
‘interested in these important mat- 
ters. It is hoped that every girl in 
the college will be able to hear her 
lecture at 4:30, Friday afternoon. The 
work which she has done and the top- 
ic on which she speaks are of vital 
interest, not only to students of so- 
ciology, but also to every girl who 
wants to be a good citizen. 


Government 
Conference At Vassar 


Problem of Colle 
Life Discussed 


Mary Anne McKinney and Helena 
Hermance returned November 19 from 
the Student Government Conference 
held during November 13-15 at Vas- 
sar, and have brought back with them 
enthusiastic reports of good times 
and interesting discussions at the con- 
ference. From the following account 
of their trip, one can see that the time 
was profitably spent in a stimulating 
exchange of ideas. 

Mary Anne and Helena left Atlanta 
on Wednesday, November 12, and ar- 
rived at Vassar on Thursday at 12 
o’clock. After lunch they went to 
Students’ Building where the confer- 
ence was held. The first session 
opened at 2 o’clock, Miss Eleanor 
Dodge, president of Student Govern- 
ment at Vassar, was in charge. Aft- 
er a welcome was given the students 
by President MacCracken, of Vassar, 
President Ayelatte, of Swarthmore, 
made an address on Student Govern- 
ment and Education. He discussed 
the educational value of Student Gov- 
ernment to officers and to individual 
members and the value of non-aca- 
demic activities in general. He raised 
the question as to whether it was bet- 
ter to sacrifice academic honor for 
non-academic activities, and the de- 
cision made was that the value re- 
ceived from participation in such an 
organization as Student Government 
justified the large amount of time 
spent on it. A question was also 
raised as to how individuals could be 
made more interested in Student Gov- 
ernment, for this was felt to be the 
weakness of most colleges; that just 
a few do all the work; but no definite 
conclusion was formed the first aft- 


ernoon and the conference closed at 


4:30. 
After dinner at six and chapel at 
seven, the Vassar girls conducted their 


| guests to Students’ Building to a play, 


“Orio de Capo,” written by Edna St. 
Bincent Millay, a graduate of Vas- 
sar. After this play a reception was 
given in the same building and the 
visitors had the opportunity of meet- 
ing President MacCracken, Dean 
Thompson, of Vassar, who was orig- 
inally an Atlantan, the Vassar fac- 
ulty, and Vassar girls. 

On Friday morning breakfast was 
(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Calendar for December 


Holidays Overshadow 
All Events 


Someone, gazing at the calendar for 
next month, turned around with a sur- 
prised expression, and said. 

“Look how few things are sched- 
uled for December!” 


That statement may be true if one 
looks merely at the scattered checks 
on the scholastic calendar, but... . 
December! What multitudes of indi- 
vidual plans it holds! 

The third through the ninth will 
bring to Atlanta a meeting of the 
Federal Council of Churches. This 
meeting will assemble many of the 
most prominent speakers of the Unit- 
ed States. We are especially inter- 
ested, for we hope to have quite a 
few of these noted men to speak to 
us at Chapel and Prayers during the 
course of the week. 

On the afternoon of the sixth, the 
Smith Alumnae will give a party in 
the gym to High School girls whom 
they wish to interest in the college. 

The evening of the sixth brings the 
much looked-forward-to presentation 
before the college of “The Conflict,” 
the play selected by Blackfriars to 
represent them at Evanston, Ill, in 
the intercollegiate theatrical contest. 
We can’t wait! 

December Seventeenth. Laughs, a 
mad rush, trunks and trains will fair- 
ly shout vacation. Goodbye until 
1925! 


|of poverty and hardships. 


At Agnes Scott 


ge|Mr. J. T. Luptona 


Member of Board 
of Trustees 


Has Served On Board 
Since 1914 


Mr. J. T. Lupton has been a trus- 
tee of Agnes Scott since 1914, and is 
fourth on the list of our trustees, ar- 
ranged according to the length of time 
of service. For many years, he has 
been greatly interested in education, 
and has been giving as much time and 
thought to that as to his private busi- 
ness affairs. 

The way in which he became inter- 
ested in Agnes Scott was through his 
acquaintance with Dr. Gaines, for 
whose ability and high ideals he had 
the greatest admiration. A favorite 
saying of Mr. Lupton’s is: “I like 
to invest my money in personalities.” 
He has employed thousands of people, 
and has always been willing to back 
a man of character and ability who 
has no money, rather than a man of 
means who is not so strong in per- 
sonal qualities. 

As a trustee of Agnes Scott, he 
has not found it possible to attend 
the meetings of the board with regu- 
larity, but he has been excelled by no 
one connected with the college in 
promptness with giving advice and 
help on difficult problems. His rule 
is to answer Agnes Scott letters by 
return mail. He was a very liberal 
contributor to our college in the re- 
cent campaign, and has largely con- 
tributed the money for Lupton cot- 
tage*on th: cath pus. 

The following is an account of his 
early life, and business success, giv- 
en by his secretary: 

“Mr. Lupton’s early life was one 
He had a 
remarkable mother, however, who, 
with her untiring energy, industry, 
and beautiful Christian character, was 
an example and inspiration to her 
children. Since she was left a widow 
in a section of the tountry that had 
just been laid waste by four years 
of Civil War, her task of earning 
a living for her family was not an 
easy one. 

Young Lupton early learned to 
shoulder responsibility, helping his 

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Mathematics Club 
Holds Meeting 


Interesting Program Given By 
Members 


The Agnesis Mathematical Club 
held its second meeting of the year 
Tuesday night, November 18. The 
club includes students who are study- 
ing higher mathematics, Physics, and 
Astronomy and is very helpful and 
instructive along these lines. 

At the opening of the meeting the 
secretary read a letter of apprecia- 
tion from Mr. Rankin for the beauti- 
ful flowers the club sent at the death 
of his father. Four very interesting 
papers were read, “Laurus,” by 
Elizabeth Woltz, and “Searpio,” by 
Ruth Owen, the readers being two 
former members of the club who kind- 
ly consented to lend their help in 
furthering the work of the organiza- 
tion; “Philosophy and Mathematics,” 
by Sara Fullbright, and “Greek In- 
fluence on Mathematics,” by 
Rose, both girls being present mem- 
bers. 

The next meeting will be some time 
during the week before Christmas, 
and will be a social, to which all mem- 
bers are cordially urged to come. 


Maria 


Learned Bible Teacher Ad- 
dresses Students of 
Agnes Scott 


The college has been more than for- 
tunate in securing Dr. Clay Lilly, a 
prominent Bible teacher of Winston- 
Salem, N. C., as lecturer for this 
week, Dr. Lilly is a man of unusual 
understanding and is well qualified to 
bring to the students and the faculty 
messages concerning the Christian 
life. These messages are delivered 
twice a day, at the chapel period in 
the morning and at prayers in the eve- 
ning. Dr. Lilly speaks in a thor- 
cughiy human way of problems which 
the Christian must face and the ne- 
cessity of meeting life squarely. “The 
dear girls,” as he affectionately calls 
them, and the faculty will profit 
greatly if they attend his brief but 
forceful addresses. 

On Tuesday morning Dr. Lilly 
spoke to the students of their respon- 
sibilities as women of the present 
day. There is no phase of life into 
which the modern woman has not en- 
tered. In the home, the school, the 
church, society, civil life and commer- 
cial life her influence is felt. Wo- 
man must set high standards and 
lofty ideals, for in her hands the fu- 
ture is molded. But woman cannot 
depend upon her own strength; her 
life must be controlled by the Heay- 
enly Father and her power must come 
from Him who doeth all things well. 

At the Tuesday night lecture Dr. 
Lilly defined belief in Jesus Christ, 
showing that it is not some meta- 
physical or theological statement, but 
a belief in the principles, the pro- 

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Agnes Scott 
Represented At 


Teachers Training 
School 


Mr. Stukes and Dr. Good Lecture 
To Teachers 


Agnes Scott is well represented at 
the Standard Teachers Training 
School in that Mr. Stukes and Dr. 
Good hold important positions on its 
faculty. This training school is con- 


ducted each fall by Presbyterian 
churches all over the South, and this 
year the Atlanta school is held in 
Central Presbyterian church (where 
Agnes Scott girls love to go to hear 
Dr. Lacey). 

Mr, Stukes has a class in Adult 
Psychology and has a large number of 
“pupils” whom he is teaching to teach 
the Bible lessons in a more interest- 
ing and effective manner. Dr. Good 
also has a large and earnest class 
pressing on toward the diploma which 
stands for so much in the training of 
the modern Sabbath school teacher 
or worker with young people. 

Among others, Dr. Turnbull of the 
Theological Seminary is a prominent 
lecturer. His classes in Bible study 
average an attendance of two hundred 
at every meeting. He is conducting a 
most interesting series of studies in 
Genesis in his usual charming and 
impressive manner. The enrollment 
for the whole school is between five 
and six hundred and the leaders are 
indeed pleased at the gratifying in- 
terest shown by the teachers of the 
city. And not teachers alone are at- 
tending, but many others, leaders in 
every branch of endeavor. This is 
Dr. Turnbull’s first visit to Atlanta 
and he states that he is more than 
pleased with his impression of a 
great city. 

Many of the finest speakers and 
ablest leaders afforded by the church 
are taking part in the program of the 
school, and among those who are add- 
ing to its power and success are’ Mr. 

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Much has been said since the World War of Student Friendship 
and that in friendship lies the hope of the world. The Yale News 
has done a wonderful thing in beginning an International Supple- 
ment with articles on the life, customs, interests, and problems of 
students in foreign countries. The Agonistic wishes Agnes Scott 
to learn something of these students that she may feel herself one 
of the great family of students of the world. For the remaining 
issues for this year the Agonistic expects to give up a few inches 
of its space each week to some of this International News. 

The Agonistic feels that the ideal of this is expressed by Dr. 
Hadley in his editorial, “The Broadening of University Ideals”, 
which we take great pleasure in passing on to you. 


THE BROADENING OF UNIVERSITY IDEALS. 


By President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, Yale University. 


In the middle ages universities were international in their 
character and influence. Their students came together from 
many countries; their teachers were known and their degrees 
recognized through the length and breadth of Europe. Many 
’ historians believe that the thing which first gave the schools of 
Bologne or Paris and the colleges of Oxford -the right to claim 
the title of “University” was this international character; that a 
university was distinguished from a college, not so much by 
having courses of study which covered the whole field of learning 
as by having a reputation which extended over the whole civilized 
world. 

This international side of university life, Which was so prom- 
inent in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, became much less 
so in the period that followed. Universities in the sixteenth and 
seventeenth centuries became pretty thoroughly localized. They 
were animated not so much by the desire to advance the higher 
learning of Christendom as by the intent to train such ministers 
and lawyers and physicians as each state required. And these 
requirements were far more divergent in the seventeenth century 
than they had been in the fourteenth. Separate churches had 
grown up in different parts of Europe, each with a theology of 
its own; separate nations had been organized or were in process 
of organization, each with a bureaucracy of its own. ‘It,was in- 
evitable that colleges organized to train men “for public service in 
church or civil state’, as the words of our first Yale charter read, 
should develop courses of study and methods of teaching which 
were adapted to the needs of their own people and took relatively 
little account of the outside world. 

But in the last two hundred years the “learned world” has 
gradually been getting back together again; and the universities 
of different nations are far closer to one another at the beginning 
of the twentieth century than they were in the middle of the 
eighteenth. This has been partly due to improved methods of 
transportation and-communication, which make it easier for mem- 
bers of different nations to see and know each other; but still 
more to the development of modern science—the scientific study 
of history and politics, of physics and biology. For the student of 
science is primarily concerned with discovering laws of nature 
rather than meeting requirements of man; laws of nature which 
are effective the whole world over, whether the constituted au- 
thorities like them or not. 

The result has been that in the purely intellectual side, the 
universities of the world have been brought very much closer 
together in recent years. The teachers in one university know 
pretty well what is going on in their department in other uni- 
versities all over the world. A discovery made in one country has 
immediate effect in the thought and the teaching of half a dozen 
others. But the purely intellectual side is not the whole of life, 
nor does it represent the whole of university influence and char- 
acter. To get the intellectual forces of the world together, and 
to get its thought really internationalized, we need mutual under- 
standing between the students of different parts of the world 
as well as the teachers. 

This is not the kind of thing which can be achieved in a day 


THE 


AGONISTI 


NATIONAL LINES ON OUR MAPS 


.By James Creese 


Secretary American Scandinavian 
Foundation. 


There is a delusion that Europe lies 
on the other side of the Atlantic, sep- 
arated from us by five or ten days’ 
travel. But Europe has settled down 
quietly in our midst, and Europe’s 
boundary lines are being drawn on the 
map of the United States. 

In a.certain city of Illinois, a nar- 
row river constitutes a national boun- 
dary. It divides the city into two. peo- 
ples, speaking different languages in 
their homes, _supporting churches, 
newspapers, hospitals and clubs of dif- 
ferent national traditions. One town 
in Minnesota, boasts two colleges, in 
one of which ninety per cent of: the 
students are, of a single national 
group; their, names in the catalogue 
announce the fact. The courses in lit- 
erature and history are directed to 
authors and statesmen not often 
named in the more famous colleges of 
the country. Illustrations of ~ this 
marking of national boundaries in Am- 
erican life are presented in the news 
of every day, sometimes regrettable 
news. 

These national groups are created 
by the immigrant’s desire to preserve 
in a foreign land his family inheri- 
tance, his own literature and art, his 
own moral and ethical code. Where 
our imported national boundaries 
unite a group of people for the pre- 
servation of such things, they are 
good; where they serve only to sep- 
arate the new from the old American, 
they are dangerous. Unfortunately 
the Yankee does not always recog- 
nize the good to be gained from im- 
porting a culture with our immigrant 
people. He seldom makes an effort 
to eross the boundary lines to discover 
what lies beyond them. His disre- 
gard or even scorn may impress more 
deeply and dangerously the boundaries 
that separate his neighbors) from 
him, 

The proper object of Americaniza- 
tion is the American. He should 
realize that his country is built of 
many blocks, unlike in texture but 
similarly substantial. Our stone comes: 
from many distant quarries. If the 
American student knows the student 
life of Norway, if the American has 
read in translation the great works 
of Ibsen and Bjornson, Hamsun and 
Bojer, if he has been inspired by the 
heroic adventures of Nansen, the ex- 
plorer and humanitarian statesman, 
there will be no division but union be- 
tween him and his fellow of Nor- 
wegian descent. Let the American 
utilize every instrument of association 
with the mother lands of his neigh- 
bors and the lines of Europe drawr 
lightly on his country’s map will be- 
come marks of distinction, the stamp 
of a culture greater than others be- 
cause it includes all.—Yale Interna- 
tional News. 


Cc 


DELIGHTFUL DINNER GIVEN IN 
TEA ROOM 


To have one’s mother visit one is 
considered the height of bliss on A. 
S. C. campus. Then what shall we 
eall it when @ girl’s mother not only 
visits her, but even gives a dinner 
in her honor in the Alumnae House? 
For lack of better vocabulary we 


should call it “mighty like paradise.” 


Yet that is the good fortune that 
came to Josephine Houston, recently. 


Jo’s mother, Mrs. J. A. Houston, 
of Charlotte, N. C., has been visiting 
Jo for the past week, and last Mon- 
day, November 17, she issued invita- 
tions to a dinner to be given that 
evening in honor of her daughtér. The 
guests assembled in the lovely parlor 
of the Alumnae House, which was 
decorated in magnificent yellow and 
white chrysanthemums: From there 
they adjourned to the tea room, where 
a delicious three-course dinner, one 
might say banquet, was served. 

The invited guests were Miss Hous- 
ton, Miss Lillian La Conte, Miss Hous- 
ton’s room-mate, and her mother, Mrs. 
J. T. Williams, of Atlanta, Misses 
Maria Rose, Mary Keesler, Kathleen 
Grey, Irene Lourance, and Louisa 
Duls, all of Charlotte; Misses Eliza- 
beth Cole, Sarah Glenn, Mary Mack- 
ey Hough, Louise Scherfesse, Louise 
Gerideau, Elizabeth Roark, Caroline 
Essig, and Lillian White. 


PI ALPHA PHI HOLDS 
INTERESTING DEBATE 


On Thursday evening, November 
20, Pi Alpha Phi settled one of the 
burning international problems of the 
day to the satisfaction of its mem- 
bers, if not to that of the world. The 
question was—“Resloved, That the 
United States Should Admit the Jap- 
anese as Immigrants on the Same 
Basis as those People from Europe.” 
The subject was particularly of in- 
terest to those members of history 8, 
who chose this as a subject for term 
papers. 

The affirmative was upheld by Miss 
Nan Lingle and Miss Margaret 
Hyatt. They argued from the stand- 
point of justice to all races; against 
racial prejudice, and that there was 
no fundamental difference between 
the races. 

The negative, championed by Miss 
Margery Speake and Miss Martha 
Crowe, met these arguments in an ef- 
fective manner. They held that the 
Japanese present am entirely different 
problem from the European immi- 
grants, politically, socially, interna- 
tionally. 

The judges, Miss Hearon, Miss 
Davis and Miss D, F. Smith rendered 
a two-to-one decision in favor of the 
negative. After this the club was 
adjourned, The discussion of this in- 
teresting problem was highly en- 
lightening to all who were present. 


or which can be accomplished through any one agency—Rhodes 
Scholarships, international exchange of students, international 
participation in athletics or in ceremomnials ;—all these show a 
recognition of the need of student contact as a means of getting 
the world together. Under circumstances such as these, no 
apology is needed for the amount of space which the News pro- 
poses to devote to the accounts of foreign university life and work. 
Wholly apart from the value of the information given to those who 
think of pursuing studies abroad, these articles are a recognition 
of the fact that the Americam student interest no longer centers 


wholly on the problems of his own college campus. So far as 
higher education is cancerned, he is trying to think in international 
terms. —Yale News. 


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DAY STUDENT 
' NEWS 


Owing to the overwhelming popu- 
larity and success of the Day Stu- 
dents’ musical comedy, it has been 
decided to present again this charm- 
ing laughter-provoking production. 
This time “The String ’Em Girl” will 
be given at Egleston Hall in Atlanta, 
on the evening of Tuesday, December 
2, at 8:15. The same cast that fur- 
nished enjoyment for the college com- 
munity a little over a week ago will 
prove to Atlanta’s discriminating 
theatre-going contingent that these 
amateurs have professional character- 
istics. All of those who enjoyed see- 
ing the play (and who didn’t!) will 
be glad of another opportunity for do- 
ing so, and those of you who were 
unfortunate enough to miss it—well, 
reserved seats will soon be on sale’ 
and it would be advisable to secure 
them as far in advance as possible. 
The day students were more than 
pleased with the financial results they 
had, and they hope that a considerable 
increase will be added to the fund 
for their cottage. 

While we are on the subject of dra- 
matics we would like to add that our 
president, Isabel Clarke, is crowning 
herself with more laurels. In the 
Blackfriar plays, to be given Saturday 
evening, November 29, she will im- 
personate Percinet, in “The Roman- 
cers.” Recollections of Laurie in 
“Little Women” and of the hero in 
“The String Em Girl” make us sure 
that in another masculine role she will 
again sway our hearts. 


GLEE CLUB SINGS BEFORE DE- 
CATUR WOMAN’S CLUB 


The Agnes Scott community is not 
the only group which enjoys the priv- 
ilege of hearing our Glee Club. Last — 
Tuesday, November 18, the Glee Club . 
presented a program before the Wo- 
man’s Club of Decatur, and this was — 
the second time recently that the club 
had sung before a Decatur group. 

Speaking of our Glee Club, the Mer- 
cer Glee Club, which was here on No- 
vember 15, seemed to think very high- 
ly of the talent of our girls as evi- 
denced in the performance they gave 
during the reception to the Mercer 
boys. 


MR. J. T. LUPTON A MEMBER OF 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


mother in a country store, working 
on the farm, serving as postmaster 
and depot agent, and later teaching 
or selling books during vacations. By 
hard work and determined persever- 
anee he secured a college education, 
receiving degrees at Roanoke College 
and the University of Virginia. 

As a young man Mr. Lupton moved 
to Chattanooga, where he has been 
signally successful in business and has 
been one of the principal builders of 
the city and its industries. Although 
he has been for several years trying 
to lessen his activities, he is still 
largely interested in downtown busi- 
ness property, is actively connected 
with a large cotton spinning and mer- 
cerizing industry in Chattanooga, and 
is vice-president of the First National 
Bank and the First Trust and Sav- 
ings Bank of Chattanooga. 

In Atlanta Mr. Lupton is president — 
of the Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 
and of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 
which latter company controls the bot- 
tling rights throughout the South and 
West. Mr. Lupton and two associates 
were the original bottlers of Coca-. 
Cola and it is through his leadership — 
that the bottling business has been 
developed. 

Mr. Lupton is a man who carries | 
the riches of God within himself. He 
is a member and a deacon in the First 
Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga 
and gives freely of his means for re- 
ligious work. He is a Phi Gamma 
Delta and a Civitan. Besides being 
a trustee of Agnes Scott, he is also. 
a trustee of Oglethorpe University, 
Peabody College for Teachers, and of - 
Baylor School, Chattanooga, and has_ 
given hundreds of thousands of dol-. 
lars to our southern schools and col-. 
leges.” 


THE 


AGONISTIC 


3 


GIDDIE GOSSIP 


Dearest Giddy, 

Giddy just think! This time next 
week I'll be eating ‘grapefruit, and 
celery and good creamed “ice-pota- 
toes” with peas and jelly and cran- 
berries and m-a-y-be turkey! It 
might be chicken tho’ but it’s just be- 
ing Thanksgiving would make chicken 
taste like turkey—'’specially when 
you’re away from home, Anyway I'll 
dress up and feel like I might be 
somebody more than just a little 
freshman at A. S.C. And then some- 
body told me that after supper—din- 
ner I mean, we all went over in the 
gym and danced and had a regular 
orchestra. I’m so excited over it I 
can’t sleep at night hardly. 

You know, Giddy, the Juniors down 
here know almost as much as the 
Seniors. Did you ever hear of Circe? 
Well, I never did either till just the 
other day, but Nan Lingle knew all 
the time because the other day Carrie 
Graham was reading or writing a play 
one, I’ve forgotten which, and she 
called out to Nan and asked, “Nan 
what does ‘surcease’ mean?” And 
Nan said, “Circe? Oh she was the 
goddess of plenty.” 

And let me tell you something else 
about Nan. She was going to French 
the other day and got right outside 
the window and called to somebody 
upstairs—I guess she thought Miss 
Hale hadn’t come—‘Did you do all 
this old lesson? I just couldn’t do it.” 
And there was Miss Hale right there. 
She laughed thou and of course Nan 
blushed. 

Ellen Douglas Leyburn blushed 
‘most as had the other day tho’ in 
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DR. LILLY HOLDS WEEK OF 

SERVICES AT AGNES SCOTT 

(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


gram, the promises and the power of 
Jesus. If real trust is reposed in 
the Master, his principles of purity, 
truth, unselfishness, and love must be 
acknowledged; His program must be 
made effective in human society; His 
promises of redemption, grace, spir- 
itual life, spiritual food, growth, fel- 
lowship and victory must be relied 
upon; His power as the Son of God 
and the Savior of mankind must take 
firm root in the human heart. Real 
trust in Jesus Christ is not belief 
from the frigid zone of mental skep- 
ticism, nor yet, that of the torrid zone, 
of religious superstition, but that of 
the temperate zone, of normal relig- 
ious faith. 

On Wednesday morning Dr. Lilly 
spoke of the development of Moses. 
Moses was brought up in the palace 
of the king of Egypt and might have 
stayed there all of his life, but he 
turned his back upon worldly pleas- 
ures and chose to hear the reproach 
of his people. He felt called to save 


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I'm going to give you some statistics 
and Miss Leyburn, you needn’t look so 
bored.” Ellen Douglas was on the 
back seat. 

I wrote you about Sat didn’t I? 
Well he’s got a rival. Lillie Pearl 
McElwaney over on 8rd floor white 
house has had a dog about a week 
that’s eleven inches long and five 
inches wide, according to statistics— 
and he’s got an awful habit of waking 
up every morning about day break 
and crying so naturally that it sounds 
like a regular baby. I haven’t seen 
him yet but he must be cute. 

I wrote you once about Lucy Winn, 
too, didn’t I? Well, the other day 
in psychology Mr. Stukes was telling 
about a spiritualistic meeting that he 
went to once and how the people act- 
ed. Lucy held up her hand—no I be- 
lieve she didn’t—she just spoke up 
and said, “Well, Mr. Stukes, one time 
I went to one and it was the kind 
where they turned out the lights and 
everything was dark, and you just 
sat around and held hands and——” 
but everybody was laughing so—and 
Mr. Stukes was too, you know he gets 
right tickled sometimes—that she 
didn’t finish. And then he said, “Well 
that wasn't the kind I went to, Miss 
Winn.” I haven’t made up my mind 
whether I want to go to one or not. 
It all depends, don’t you think? 

I’ve got two or three more good 
things to tell you but I’ll wait till next 
time ’cause its nine o’clock now and 


I want to get a sandwich over at the 
tea room. Love, 
. AGGIE. 


his people, Israel, but in the begin- 
ning he relied upon the arm of flesh, 
and failure resulted. He went into 
the wilderness and there was further 
fitted for his great mission, for he 
became familiar with the topography 
of that religion and what was vastly 
more important, he learned that he 
must rely on the strength of God. 
Education, knowledge, and faith had 
prepared Moses for his great task of 
delivering the children of Israel from 
the land of Pharaoh. Should we as 
college students, having education and 
knowledge, fail to meet present day 
problems squarely, because we lack 
faith? 

At the Wednesday evening service 
Dr. Lilly talked on the Beatitudes, 
aptly calling them the chapter of hu- 
man happiness. First things must be 
put first. “Seek ye first the king- 
dom of God.’’ The things of God 
are and should be above envy, hatred, 
strife, even family ties, and likewise 
spiritual relationships have prece- 
dence over physical relationships. A 
man’s life consists not in the abun- 
dance of things that he possesses. 
The kingdom of God is better than 
that which is good, stronger than that 
which is strong, greater than that 
which is great, and finer than that 
which is fine. Our lives should be 
based on Christ’s system of values 
and His interpretation of life, and 
to learn of these spiritual fellowships 
is necessary. 


On Thursday morning Dr. Lilly’s 
subject was “Christian Service.” Our 
Christianity is proved by our works. 
By their fruits ye shall know them; 
for an evil tree brings forth corrupt 
fruit, but a good tree brings forth 
good fruit. Christianity is a live 
thing, for it is vitalized by spiritual 
experience. Morality is known as be- 
longing essentially to Christianity. 
The Chinese have good systems of 
morals but they lack the spirit which 


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There is a group of girls on the 
campus which doesn’t often come to 
the public eye, but they are doing 
an effective and very necessary work. 
These are the discussion group lead- 
ers. Every week they meet, and, in- 
structed by “Jo” Schuessler, study 


methods of a discussion group and 
make plans for the meetings which 
are held every Wednesday night at 
9:45. Because we don’t hear of this 
group, as a group, we sometimes fail 
to realize the real work these girls 
are putting forth to make our dis- 
cussions a success. If there are any 
suggestions for study the girls will 
try to carry them out. Give them to 
some member of the committee, which 
consists of Evalyn Powell, Elizabeth 
Lilly, Maria Rose, Margaret Keith, 
Virginia Norris, Virginia Browning, 
Emily Jones, Elizabeth Cheatham, 
Virginia Sevier, and Ruth Liver- 
more. 

The Student Industrial Commis- 
sion had a delightful meeting on Tues- 
day, November 18. Mrs. Gereke, the 
industrial secretary, had us all in to 
her house to supper. She has a darl- 
ing little apartment, consisting of a 
tiny kitchen and a living room, bed 
room and dining room combined, We 
were very worried on arrival for she 
told us that that was all the apart- 
ment; and we couldn’t see where she 
slept. Upon investigation, however, 
we found a Murphy bed in the closet. 

After supper we had a wedding. 
The students and industrial girls were 
joined in a union of perpetual friend- 
ship. We hope this will extend fur- 
ther than the little group which was 
touched that night; and take in every 
student and industrial girl of Agnes 
Scott and Atlanta. 

This next Sunday we are to have 
our industrial program and we sin- 
cerely hope all the girls will come and 
meet the industrial girl who is go- 
ing to speak to us. 


would carry out their principles. 
Christianity brings forth works of 
mercy and deeds of philanthropy, or 
else it is not real Christianity. The 
Christian should be ready to serve 
his Master at all times and should 
see to it, in so far as he can, that all 
people have a chance in life. All who 
own Christ as Lord should live lives 
that merit the words of the Master, 
“Come, ye blessed of my Father, in- 
herit the kingdom prepared for you.” 

Thursday evening Dr. Lilly contin- 
ued his series of lectures with a talk 
on the “Transfiguration of Jesus and 
its Meaning.” The transfiguration 
took place after Jesus had first an- 
nounced to His disciples that life must 
suffer and die for the sins of the 
world. Peter, speaking for the group, 
said that these things could not be; 
the disciples, in spite of constant com- 
panionship with Jesus could not un- 
derstand the value of the cross. Je- 
sus in this great time of need stood 
alone in the world, but going up into 
the mountain He sought His Father in 
prayer. He found comfort while His 
three closest earthly friends were 


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At Trinity College, Hartford, se- 
niors and others who receive an aver- 
age of B in all of their studies have 
the privilege of taking as many class 
euts as they choose. 


We quote the Queen’s Blues under 
the title of Snappy Editorials: 

“Worthy books 

Are not companions—they are soli- 
tudes; 

We lose ourselves in them and all 
our cares.” 

“That is a good book which is open- 
ed with expectation and closed with 
profit.” 

“Laws die. Books never.” 

“All books grow homilies by time; 
they are Temples, at once, and Land 
Marks.” 

“There is no past, so long as books 
shall live.” 

“We prize books, and they prize 
them most who are themselves wise.” 


The University of North Carolina 
has recently been made president of 
the Association of American Univer- 
sities at a meeting of that association 
a few weeks ago in Minneapolis, Minn. 

The Universities of North Carolina 
and Virginia are the only two south- 
ern institutions in this association, 
membership in which is limited to 
twenty-six of America’s largest and 
best universities. 


Changes in the departments of Eng- 
lish for the coming year have been 
announced at Salem by the head of 
the English department at that insti- 
tution. Two new courses will be of- 
fered next year to students in this 
department: a course in Contempo- 
rary Literature, in which the student 
may acquaint himself with the fiction 
of the present day; and a course in 
the Study and Technique of Short 
Stories, which will deal with the his- 
tory and type of the short story. 


asleep. To Him the transfiguration 
meant the confirmation of the dedi- 
cation of His life to sacrifice and 
death, even the death of the cross, 
for the salvation of the world. What 


then does the transfiguration mean to 
us? Because of the Master’s great 
purpose in life He was thrown face 
to face with great problems which in 
turn brought wonderful spiritual ex- 
periences. Him God hath exalted to 
be a prince. Shall we then be unwil- 
ling to have larger purposes, meet 
greater difficulties, since they bring 
that God can consecrate and use the 
us face to face with God. We know 
weakest vessel. Why should we as 
educated Christians, shun our task 
and hesitate to pay the price of lead- 
ership? 

Dr. Lilly’s messages are spoken 
from the heart; they tell us the Mas- 
ter’s way of life. His words and 
phrases are sententious, terse, ener- 
getic and pregnant with meaning. We 
are more than glad that Dr. Lilly is 
here this week to give us these heart- 
to-heart talks. 


New 


unusual ways. 


-Up. in Boston in the Old Granary 
Burying Ground there is a tombstone 
on which is engraved the following 
epitaph: 
Here lies buried 
the body of 
Capt. John Decoster, 
Who died Jan. 28th, 1774 
Aged 26 yrs. 


“Step here, my friend, and cast an eye, 
As you are now, so once was I; 
As I am now so you must be: 
Prepare for death and follow me.” 
A student observed this quaint 
rhyme thoughtfully for some time. 
Then he crossed the street and bought 
a piece of chalk at a shop. Return- 
ing to the grave he stooped down and 
wrote below the verse: 
“To follow you I’m not content, 
For I don’t know which way you've 
went.” 
—“The Phoenix,” Swarthmore Col- 
lege. 


“Wesleyan College has completed, 
within a little over half the time al- 
lotted, its contract with the General 
Education Board of New York, where- 
by the endowment of Wesleyan has 
been increased to the sum total of 
$300,000. The completion of the con- 
tract was made known Tuesday morn- 
ing in chapel when President W. F. 
Quillian announced that he had re- 
ceived a check from the board for 
$18,779.61, to cover the balance on 
account of the Board’s appropriation 
for endowment. The contract which 
was signed in March, 1922, provided 
that for every dollar that Wesleyan 
raised from other sources and endow- 
ment, up to $200,000, the Board would 
contribute fifty cents. Although five 
years’ time was allowed for the com- 
pletion of the contract, only two years 
and seven months were needed to com- 
plete it.’—“The Watchtower.” 


‘He rose with great alacrity 

To offer her his seat; 

’Twas a question whether he or she 
Should stand upon his feet. 


—‘The Bull-Dog.” 


MISS WOLFORD ADDRESSES 
STUDENTS 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


pression on the employer, and it is 
much easier to get a job than when 
there is any uncertainty. 

A surprising thing is the lack of 
fairness which has been found prev- 
alent among applicants, especially the 
men. After their applications have 
been turned in, they often fail to 
answer at all notices of offers which 


care sent to them, or they answer them 


too late to be of any use. Too, they 
secure other jobs without notifying 
the office which continues to try to 
place them. This is exasperating to 
employers and brings unfair hard- 
ships upon the agency. 

In spite of such difficulties for 
which the applicants themselves are 
responsible, the Placement Bureau has 
had unusual suecess. Although not 
yet a year old, it has had about 600 
applications and satisfied all except 
a very small number of them. As 
it becomes older and better known, it 
expects to be even more serviceable in 
placing college students, 


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winter coat—for the new winter coats are new. 
Never before have fashions been so different. 
before have fabrics been so soft and suede-like. Never 
before have furs been used so lavishly and in such 
Even the linings are different. 
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Aggie’s Funny Bone 


“What was all the racket in the| which of us would come.” 


barber shop?” 

“One of the barbers was shaving 
himself and trying to talk himself 
into a massage.” 


“Once upon a time there were three 
children. Half of them were boys.” 

“Get out! I suppose the other one 
and one-half were girls, eh?” 

“Oh, no! the other half were boys, 
too!” 


“Let’s be gay, while we may 

And seize our love with laughter, 
I'll be true as long as you, 

And not a moment after.” 


Wun—“I promised myself I’d kiss 
you before I left tonight.” 
Too—‘Go home this minute.” 


A synonym is a word you use when 
you can’t spell the other one. 


Ella—‘“Universities must be very 
wicked places.” 

Wilcox—“Yes, yes; go on.” 

Ella—‘Children under sixteen are 
not admitted.” 


Fresh—*What course do you take?” 
Soph—“The course of least resis- 
tance.” 


First Sorority girl—“Did Jerry act 
nasty when you gave him back his 
pin?” 

Second Ditto—“I should say he did. 
The horrid thing took out his nail file 
and scratched a cross on the back of 
the pin.” 


“My girl is some chemist!” 

“Quite a mixer, eh?” 

“No, but when I take her out my 
gold and silver turns to copper.” 


The young man arrived at the party 
and made his way to the hostess, 
greeting her and apologizing for his 
lateness. 

“Awfully glad to see you, Mr. 
Jones,” said the hostess. “So good 
of you to come. But where is your 
brother?” 

“He was unable to come. You see, 
we are so busy just now that it was 
impossible for both of us to get away 
and so we tossed up a coin to see 


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“How nice! And you won?” 
“No,” replied the young man, ab- 
sently, “I lost.” 


She—“I dreamed last night that I 
danced with the most popular man in 
the academy.” 

He—*Did I dance well?” 


HE 


AGONISTIC 


The wedding of Lutie Nimmons 
Powell to John G. Burckhardt, Jr., of 
Atlanta, was solemnized November 
15 at the home of the bride’s sister 
on Greenville street in Newnan. The 
ceremony was witnessed only by the 
immediate families and a few close 
friends. The bride’s little niece, Mary 
Davis, was the flower girl, and the 
groom’s nephew, Richter Smith, was 
the ringbearer. Charles Richter 


Farmer (addressing hen house)—| Smith acted as best man. There were 


“Who’s in thar?” 


no other attendants. The bride was 


Quavering response—“Nobody but| lovely in a charmeen costume of mid- 


jes’ us chickens.” 
J 


“How did you get your cold?” 
“Got Chile on the radio last night.” 


“Look at them raze that building.” 
“Dumbbell, they’re tearing it down.” 


History is essential. How else 
would European countries know whose 
turn it is to get revenge? 


Famous Sayings 
“I’m sorry I have no more lives to 
give for my country”—Plutarch. 
“Don’t lose your head”’—Queen 
Mary. 
“There’s a fool born every min- 
ute.”—Barnum. 


Examiner—“What do you know 
about surveying?” 
College Grad—‘Lots.” 


They All Do 


Dumb—‘“Are you going to take va- 
cation on your birthday?” 

Dora—“Oh, yes; I'll probably take 
a year off.” 


BLACKFRIARS CHOOSES “THE 
CONFLICT” FOR INTER- 
COLLEGIATE CONTEST 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


The casts are as follows: 
(1) 
Mother........acosruce Georgia Mae Little 
Elder Daughter ...... Helena Hermance 


Younger Daughter ........ Eloise Harris 
BOY Reese ont ainticee Frances Freeborn 
(2) 

MOthe? scpcccears cacy Roberta Winter 


Elder Daughter, Mary Anne McKinney 


Younger Daughter 
Elizabeth Cheatham 
Louise Buchanan 


(3) 
Eon Mary Ben Wright 
ae Isabel Ferguson 
Younger Daughtev........ Mary Freeman 
Anne McKay 


AGNES SCOTT REPRESENTED AT 
TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


C. T. Carr, of North Carolina; Dr. 


||Getty and Dr, Wesley Baker, direc- 


tor of young people’s work. The men 
and women leading in this work are 
indeed of the cream of our ministers, 
teachers and lay workers. 


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night blue trimmed in touches of red. 
She carried a bouquet of orchids and 
valley lillies. The ceremony was fol- 
lowed by a delicious wedding break- 
fast after which the bride and groom 
left on a motor trip to Florida. 

The bride was educated at Agnes 
Scott, Columbia College, and Emory, 
being the first woman to receive a 
Ph. B. degree from Emory, which she 
won last August. Mrs. Burekhardt 
is the eldest daughter of the late 
Judge and Mrs. John Stephen Pow- 
ell, of Newnan, and the Philippine Is- 
lands, 

Mr. Burckhardt is one of the most 
prominent young business men of At- 
lanta. He was educated abroad where 
he lived for many years, and he later 
completed his education with an A. B. 
degree from the University of Geor- 
gia, where he was a member of sev- 
eral honorary and social clubs. He 
served in the navy in the World war. 

After ‘their return from Florida 
the young couple will be at home in 
Atlanta. 

Mrs. Burckhardt attended Agnes 
Scott in 1908 and 1909. 

Elizabeth Henry, class of ’24, was 
a very welcome guest at the college 
last week. 

Martha Lee Taliaferro, ’22, visited 
the Alumnae House last week. 

Laurie Bell Stubbs is teaching 
French in Dalton, Ga. 

Ruth Scandrett, ’22, and Ruth and 
Christine Evans, ’22 and ’23, paid a 
short visit to Atlanta last week. 

Sarah Dunlap Bobbett (Mrs. W. H.) 
is busy keeping house in Charlotte, 
N: CG: 

Margaret Sanders, ’20, is teaching 
French and Spanish in Arkansas Col- 
lege. 

Margaret McConnell, who has been 
teaching kindergarten in Asheville, N. 
C., is at Columbia this year. 

Coma Burgess Clarkston, ’22, has 
been in Atlanta visiting her mother 
the past week. 

Eliza Bennet Young, ex ’21, was 
married on August 9 to Mr. Wade 
Heavey, of Louisville. 

Julia Walker Rogers, (Mrs. W. H.) 
ex. ’21, of Derron, Va., announces the 
arrival of Walter, Jr., last August. 

The following invitation has recent- 
ly been sent out. Mr. and Mrs. Gel- 
ton Evans request the honor of your 
presence at the marriage of their 
daughter, Eunice Prevost, to Mr. Rob- 
ert Frank Brownlee, on Wednesday 
evening, November 19, at half-past 
eight at the First Presbyterian church, 
Anderson, S. C. And this just means 
that pretty little Jack Evans is mar- 
ried! Among those attending the wed- 
ding were: Augustua Thomas, 
“Speedy” King, Lucy Oliver and 
Walker Perry. 


Meeting of Student Government 
Conference at Vassar 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


at 7:30, and then the second session 
of the conference opened at 9 o’clock. 
There was a discussion as to how 
Student Government might be made 


more vital to the individual, and a 
discussion of open forums and cur- 
riculum committees as a means of 
securing interest’ in Student Govern- 
ment. It was the opinion of the con- 
ference that interest might be se- 
cured from open forums, discussion 
groups, personal contact with those 
not so interested, questionnaires with 
the freshmen, and college press. There 
was a discussion of student and joint 
faculty and community government, 
of their comparision in efficiency, and 
of a method of promoting good feel- 
ing between the faculty and students. 
It was decided that faculty advice 
and cooperation are desirable, but 
: that methods vary with needs of indi- 
vidual colleges. The question of the 
; college paper was also taken up Fri- 
day morning. In some colleges there 
is a faculty censorship with members 


Varsity Hockey Team Plays Faculty. 

Many have been the games between 
the different classes. All of them 
have been interesting, yea even excit- 
ing. However, “the best comes last,” 
and this was certainly true of the 
game between the faculty and the 
varsity team. 

The student body threw the gaunt- 
let to their instructors in the form 
of a challenge: 

To the most worthy, honored, and 
all powerful faculty— 

At midnight hours when our lights 
we'd burn, 

We thought of you—’twas then your 
turn, 

We studied at Latin, at Math and 
Prose; 

Hours and hours we spent on the 
bores. 

But all things come to those who wait, 

And though to you it may seem late, 

A game of hockey will be our revenge, 

And so to the following your ears 
please lend: 

Friday afternoon at half-past two, 

We can’t tell the time when we'll get 
through. 

The faculty, unwilling that the chal- 
lenge should go unanswered, respond- 
ed: 
We, the members of the faculty of 
Agnes Scott College, being of doubt- 
ful minds and decrepit bodies, do nev- 
ertheless, notwithstanding, just the 
same, accept the challenge of the var- 
sity team to engage in a contest of 
sticks, the game to be played under 
the following conditions: 

1, Owing to our neuro-muscular 
and psycho-physical incapacity, the 
game shall be played in four quarters 
of five minutes each, with intermis- 
sions of three minutes between quar- 
ters, and ten minutes between halves. 

2. Water boys and lemon squeez- 
ers shall be placed at convenient in- 
tervals along the line of attack, in 
order that our usual dryness may 
cause as little suffering as possible. 

83. Whenever there is any dispute 
as to the possession of the ball, the 
student team will, on account of the 
superior age and inferior ability of 
their opponents, stand back and let 
the faculty try first. 

4. The members of the student 
team will not take advantage of this 
opportunity to indulge in any subtle 


of the faculty on the staff. It was 
the opinion of the conference that 
the students should be given free ex- 
pression with faculty intervention 
only in such matters as affected the 
outside world. This session ended at 
11:30. 


Then the conference assembled into 
small discussion groups, in which the 
problems were discussed in detail 
whose underlying principles had been 
discussed in the general meeting. 

A buffet luncheon was given at 
12:30 in the alumnae house. Our rep- 
resentatives were quite enthusiastic 
in their praise of the beauty of this 
building, but they said the idea of 
an alumnae house had been received 
from Agnes Scott. After lunch a 
picture of the conference was taken 
on the steps of the Alumnae House. 

At 2:30 came an afternoon session 
of the conference, at which the honor 
system was discussed under the heads 
of social honor and academic honor. 
The question of self-reporting or re- 
porting by others was considered. The 
general feeling was that penalties 
should have educational rather than 
deterrent value and should fit the of- 
fender rather than the offense. The 
question of the degree of publicity to 
give cases brought up in Student Gov- 
ernment was raised, and was decided 
to be determined by feelings and cir- 
cumstances of various colleges. After 
a consideration of the value of psy- 
chiatic tests, the session closed at 
4:30. 

There was a picnic on Sunset Hill 
at 5 o’clock, and at 8 p. m., a recital 
by a Vassar graduate, Miss Maeir. 
Informal receptions in the faculty 
homes followed. 

The last session of the conference 
opened at 9 o’clock, Saturday morn- 
ing. Unfinished business and the 
election of the following officers for 
next year were taken up: President, 
Wellesley; vice-president, Radcliff; 
secretary, Connecticut College. Va- 
rious reports were heard, and the con- 
ference adjourned at 11 o'clock. 

Taxis were waiting outside and ev- 
eryone made a rush for a train to 
take her back to her Alma Mater. 


retaliation upon their instructors by 
mutilating, damaging, wrecking, de- 
capitating, or de-feeting them. 

5. In ease of rain, escorts bearing 
umbrellas and overshoes shall be pro- 
vided for the members of the faculty 
team, to and from the field of con- 
flict, so that their spirits will not be 
dampened. 

6. The price of admission to the 

side lines shall be ten cents; on ac- 
count of the greater safety provided 
from faculty balls, reserved seats 
in the windows of the Library shall 
be sold for twenty cents each; the 
gate receipts are to be dedicated to 
the new gym. 
7. An audience of at least fifty 
must be guaranteed, as we wish our 
influence to be felt by as large a num- 
ber of spectators as possible. 

These conditions are hopefully sub- 
mitted for your considerations. 

Confidently yours till the whistle 
blows, 

The Faculty of Agnes Scott College. 

Signed and sealed this twentieth 
day of November, nineteen hundred 
and twenty-four. 

The game was a laugh from start 
to finish. The faculty proved them- 
selves quite efficient in the wielding 
of the hockey stick; and the varsity 
strained every muscle in opposition. 
The Jine-ups were peculiarly inter- 
esting. 

Varsity: 

Mary Keesler—c.f. 

Belle Walker—Li., 

Josephine Schuessler—r.w. 

Dorothy Owen—l.w. 

Sterling Johnson—e, h. 

Ellen Fain—tr.h. 

Evelyn Powell—l.h. 

Mary Anne McKinney—r.f. 

Gwendolyn McKinnon—1.f. 

Leone Bowers—«.g. 

The members of the faculty playing 
were: Miss Randolph, Miss Haynes, 
Miss Sinclair, Miss Daisy Frances 
Smith, Mr. Cunningham, Miss Pres- 
ton, Miss Phythian, Miss Alexander, 
Miss Pirkle, Mr. Johnson, Miss Gault, 
Miss Howson, Miss Brown, Miss Nell 
Buchanan. 


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The greater Agnes Scott has begun. 
At a meeting of the board of trustees 
last week, it was decided to begin at 
once the building of a new gymnasium, 
which is to be the first of a series of 
new buildings destined to constitute | 
the “Greater Agnes Scott.” And! 
work on the gymnasium is to begin: 
this month in spite of the fact that, 
the trustees are facing a deficit of| 
some $40,000, having secured ony! 
$128,000 to cover a bid of $166,000. Tt 
will be necessary, therefore, to erect, 
the building on the imstallment plan. 
Sufficient funds are now on hand to 
construct the buildimg im its exterior, 
the gymnasium proper, the floor for 
the gallery, six or seven rooms for 
student activities, a stage, and the 
room for the pool. Features, how- 
ever, as the elaborate lighting sys- 
tem for the stage, nd even the pool 
itself, will have to await further 
funds. 

When completed, our mew g¢ym- 
nasium will surpass all other build- 
ings of its kind im ‘this part of the 
country. It is planned to accommo- 
date a thousand students. Of the 
ground floor, the swimming pool, an 
up-to-date, tile affair, 25x60 feet, cov- 
ers one side. Midway in the 
room are individual basket lockers 
and box lockers arranged in rows, 
where all gym clothes are to be kept, 
and showers. If a girl wishes to go 
in swimming, she gets her bathing 
suit from a basket locker, takes a 
shower, walks to a little office near 
the pool, where she checks her day 
clothes, takes a foot-bath, and dives 
into the water. ©n coming out of 
the pool, she must follow certain wet 
aisles so as not to track up the floor. 
If, on the contrary, she is dressing for 
gymnasium exercises, the girl obtains 
her gym-clothes from the basket lock- 
er, and deposits her day clothes in 
a box locker, amd then goes upstairs 
to the main gymnasium floor. (Ad- 
vice: Begin learming above ritual 
now). On the other side of the ground 
floor, there is a special gymnasium 
for girls taking individual exercises. 
Besides this, there is on the ground 
floor, a laundry, where gym suits are 


(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Subject For Inter- 
Collegiate Debate 
Chosen 


Third Friday in March, 1925, 
Chosen For the Debate 


) 


Sophie Newcomb, Randolph Macon, 
and Agnes Scott will meet in their an- 
nual battle of words the third Fri- 
day in March, 1925. The _ subject 
chosen for discussion is, “Resolved, 
That the Johnson Immigration Bill 
Would Be for the Best Interest of the 
United States,” suggested by both 
Sophie Newcomb and Randolph Ma- 
con. 

The first Pi Alpha Phi debate on 
this subject will take place December 
llth. The object of this first debate 
is to give the members of Pi Alpha 
Phi a general understanding of the 
question. 

After Christmas the twelve best Pi 
Alpha Phi debaters will be chosen 
for concentrated work on the prep- 
aration of the final discussion, each 
debating three times. From these 
twelve the teams will be chosen to 
represent Agnes Scott in the annual 
debate next spring. 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1924 


Dr. Peters Lectures 
On “Vocational 
Guidance” 


Stimulates Interest in Women’s 
Jobs 


Dr. I. W. Peters, head of the Socio- 
logy Department at Goucher College, 
who has been touring the South this 
fall, lecturing to college women on 
“Vocational Guidance,” paid a second 
visit to Agnes Scott on Monday, No- 
vember 24. At that time she deliv- 
ered an address to the students of 


| Psychology I. 


Dr. Peters gave a brief survey of 
the progress of woman from an eco- 
nomic standpoint, since the dawn of 
history. When the curtain of his- 
tory is first raised, we find two types 
of peoples inhabiting Europe, those 
of the Russian grasslands, and those 
dwelling along the Mediterranean 
basin. The northern (or Russian) 
branch, was characterized by a pa- 
ternalistic form of government. The 
peoples were nomadic, and continued 
to be so until climatic pulsations 
wrought a change to community life. 
Even then the family organization 
was kept. The community had a 
standardized size, and budded when 
it became too big. This sort of life 
continued to the feudal period, and, 
after that, began the great modern 
age of city life, in which we are now 
living. 

The peoples of the Mediterranean 
basin seemed from the first better 
fitted for living in large communities. 


Among them, families were not so 
highly individualized, and city life 


began earlier. On these people, the 
mother left a deep imprint. In fact, 
they had at first a matrilinear form 
of government. Traces of the influ- 
ence of the mother are found in the 
great Diana of the Ephesians, and in 
the much prized Madonnas which the 
litle towns of Spain still have. 
These two streams of civilization 
and culture, the rigid, stern North 
(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) 


Dr. Lilly Leads 
Discussion Group 
Sunday Night 


|Discusses Questions For 


Students and Faculty 


In addition to the other work Dr. 
Lilly did while at Agnes Scott, he 
was kind enough to have a discussion 
talk Sunday night, November 23, at 
which time he answered questions that 
had been placed by students in a box 
arranged for the purpose in Miss 
Hopkin’s office. 

Every one was urged to put in this 
box any questions, unsigned if so de- 
sired, that she might wish to be dis- 
eussed. This talk by Dr, Lilly was 
perhaps one of the most interesting 
and valuable that he made, and it 
cleared for us some problems that we 
have often pondered over with no 
satisfactory results, To the question 
concerning the body that one has after 
death, Dr. Lilly answered with a quo- 
tation from the Shorter Catechism, 
familiar to Presbyterian girls, “The 
souls of believers are at their death 
made perfect in holiness and so im- 
mediately pass into glory, and their 
bodies being: still united to Christ do 
rest in the graves until resurrection.” 
He said that one would not have the 
same body as formerly on earth, but 
would have a new one, which is given 
in order to complete his personality. 

There were many other interesting 
questions. To the one asking if mir- 
acles were performed today, Dr. Lilly 
replied in the negative, explaining 
that we do not need them now. An- 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Celebrations 


Dinner and Dance Feature 


Day 


Turkey and frost and pumpkin pie! 
Agnes Scott last Thursday enjoyed a 
regular Thanksgiving Day, with boxes 
from home, picnics, football games, a 
day at home, and just everything. 
After a day of holiday-making, a gor- 
geous dinner in each dining room be- 
gan the evening’s fun. The dining 
rooms were decorated with autumn 
leaves and candles, while the tables 
were covered with turkey, cranberry 
sauce, celery, and all the things that 
go to make up the dinner on the last 
Thursday of November. 

All the girls, pretty in evening 
dresses of every color, adjourned to 
the gym after dinner to dance to our 
very own jazz band, until Mr. White 
heartlessly turned out the lights. 

It would be useless to attempt to 
describe the ways in which Agnes 
Scott girls spent the day. Visitors 
were so numerous that the very place 
looked strange. Mothers, cousins, 
friends, alumnae helped make the day 
happier. Ruth Hall was the guest 
of Eleanore Albright and Elsa Jacob- 
sen. Janice Brown also visited here. 
Many other alumnae spent the day. 

Atlanta and Stone Mountain enter- 
tained many girls. Evelyn Powell 
had a group at camp to spend the day. 
Alene Ramage’s father took a gay 
party on a picnic, which every one en- 
joyed thoroughly. 

Some girls were so lucky as to be 
able to spend the day at home. No 
less than six girls went to Augusta! 
Mildred Jennings went to be in a 
wedding, and Elizabeth Norfleet went 
all the way to Winston-Salem, North 
Carolina. We know we will hear noth- 
ing except “when I was home” from 


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Emory- Agnes Scott 
Field Trip 


Atlanta Society of Biologists 
Organized 


One of the most interesting and in- 
formal clubs on the campus is the 
Biology Club, sponsored by the de- 
partment of biology, and comprising 
in its membership all biology majors 
and any students particularly inter- 
ested in the subject. The field trips 
of the club are always intensely in- 
teresting, but one of the most en- 
joyable outings of the year was the 
recent trip to Stone Mountain. 

This trip was made with the Biology 
Club of Emory University, at the in- 
vitation of Prof. E. S. Heath, of At- 
lanta. When the party reached the 
base of the huge granite mountain, 
Mr, Heath made an interesting and 
very instructive talk on ‘Plant As- 
sociation.” At the end of his talk, 
his enthusiastic listeners climbed the 
mountain, and on the top Professor 
Heath pointed out numerous unusual 
specimens. 

Supper was eaten at the foot of the 
mountain, and after an afternoon 
spent in the open, the cheery blaze 
of the camp fire was a welcome sight. 
When everyone’s hunger had been 
satisfied, the party crowded around 
the fire and organized the Atlanta 
Society of Biologists. The new so- 
ciety immediately elected Professor 
Heath as president. 

It is of especial interest to Agnes 
Seott to know that Professor Heath 
will come here after Christmas to 
teach the course on Local Flora, 
which the Biology Department is of- 
fering. After last week’s delightful 
trip, the course is being looked for- 
ward to with a great deal of pleasure. 

Those who went on the trip were 
Agnes Scott and Emory Biology 
Clubs, Miss MacDougall and her as- 


sistants, Dr. and Mrs. Rhodes and 
Professors Boyd and Mitchell of 
Emory. 


Blackfriars Present Three 


No. 11 


One Act Plays 


Mr. Moore Addresses 
Bible Club 


Tells of College Life At Oxford 


The Bible Club was fortunate in 
having as a speaker at its meeting 
of November 24th, a Mr. Arthur 
Moore, of Atlanta, who has done 
graduate work at Oxford University, 
England. The subject of Mr. Moore’s 
talk was “Biblical Influences at Ox- 
ford.” He deseribed most interesting- 
ly college life as it is in England, 
life entirely different from that of 
the American college. 

Social functions at Oxford, Mr. 
Moore said, consist largely in tea- 
parties, given by students to students. 
It seems to be the custom of the il- 
lustrious professors, also, to invite 
certain of their scholars to breakfast 
in their apartments. 

Athletics play a large part in Eng- 
lish college life, as they do in ours, 
but Oxford studies are carried on in 
an entirely different way. The stu- 
dents have no téxt-books, no classes, 
no. daily assignments, no tests, and 
examinations only twice during the 
entire four years. (Sounds blissful, 
doesn’t it?) Hach student has a tu- 
tor, and he goes to him about once 
a week to receive’ assignments for the 
week. ' Mr. Moore said of his own 
first assignment in graduate Bible 
work, that he was told to write a pa- 
per on Amos. The teacher simply 
stated that the library was before 
him, and that there would be on the 
subject two lectures by different men, 
which he might attend if he cared 
to. During the week, professors (fot 
tutors) deliver lectures, which the stu- 
dents may attend if they wish. At 
the end of the first two years, the 
first set of examinations is given, 
each examination lasting six hours. 
At the end of the fourth year, the 
last set of examinations must be 
stood. 

Individual thinking, Mr. Moore said, 

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Mr. L. C. Mandeville 
Important Me mber 
Board of Trustees 


Mandeville Scholarship Gives 
Aid To Girls 


Mr. L. C. Mandeyille is third on the 
list of our trustees, arranged accord- 
ing to years of service. He has been 
one of the most faithful members and, 
although he lives out of town, he al- 
ways attends the meetings, often at 
a great personal sacrifice of time and 
convenience. He has never allowed 
the college to reimburse him for any 
of his expenses. 

He has been interested in the col- 
lege almost from its foundation. Three 
of his daughters are Agnes Scott 
Alumnae, the oldest of whom, Miss 
Eugenia Mandeville, married not long 
after graduation and died. In her 
memory, Mr. Mandeville established a 
scholarship which has helped more 
girls than any other one that has been 
placed here. 

In addition to this, he has helped, 
personally, a large number of girls 
to come to Agnes Scott, and takes re- 
markable interest in the welfare of 
all the students. From summer to 
summer he has been seeing them at 
Montreat and always attends the 
Agnes Scott rallies there. Through 
his acquaintance at Montreat and at 
other places, he has influenced many 
girls to come here. Probably no other 
trustee is known personally by more 
of our girls except Mr. Orr. 

Mr. Mandeville was born in Carroll- 
ton, Ga., September 25, 1851. He is 
the son of Mr. Appleton Mandeville, 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 1) 


“Neighbors,” ‘‘The Roman- 
cers,” “Joint Owners In 
Spain”’ All Successful 


The three one-act plays presented 
by Blackfriars Saturday evening were 
a great success from every stand- 
point. The Chapel was more than 
ever before converted into the semb- 
lance of a real theatre, for there was 
our own orchestra in “dress suits”, 
to play before the plays began, and 
between acts. It was ably directed 
by Miss Mary Douglas. 

The first play illustrated how a 
whole community forgets its individ- 
ual troubles and becomes “just 
folks” in an effort to aid one of its 
members who is threatened with real 
distress. The scene of the second 
play was laid in France, when pow- 
dered wigs and hoop skirts were worn. 
Here, the plot of the two fathers to 
bring about the marriage of their 
son and daughter succeeded, but at 
the cost of the life of the man they 
hired to aid them. The last play 
on the programme had already been 
presented several years ago by the 
Decatur Alumnae, and those who 
were fortunate enough to see it then 
feared that the second view of it 
would bring disappointment. But, if 
such a thing is possible, they were 
disappointed by not being disappoint- 
ed. The play was exceptionally well 
performed. 

None of the audience guessed that 
Ellen Walker, who played Miss Carry 
Ellsworth in the first play, left the 
Infirmary to do so, for her perform- 
ance was characterized by her usual 
good acting---She awas-nut, however, 
able to take the part assigned ta 
her in the third play. The breach 
was admirably filled by Frances 
Amis, 

The acting was good on the whole, 
and it would be a difficult task to 
designate anyone as outshining the 
others, for the cast was an all star 
one, and each member of it co-operat- 
ed with the others to make the plays 
a success, instead of striving {for 
individual glory, 

The cast of characters follows: 

Neighbors 
(Zona Gale) 
Grandma, Frances Bitzer. 
Mis’ Diantha Abel, Mildred Pitner. 


(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) 


Carolina Playmakers 
To Come To 
Agnes Scott 


Blackfriars To Bring Them Here 
After Christmas , 


It is with a great deal of interest 
that we look forward to the coming 
of the Carolina Playmakers. The 
exact date upon which they are ex- 
pected is not definitely set as yet, 
but in all probability they will be 
here shortly after Christmas. 

Blackfriars is corresponding with 
them at present, and hopes that, when 
the Carolina Playmakers come to At- 
lanta through the Drama League, they 
will also perform for Agnes Scott, 

This organization is doing a very 
interesting and instructive work. 
These students of the University of 
North Carolina have gained national 
repute. In fact, they have been criti- 
cized (favorably) in the Theater 
Magazine. It is obvious that the fact 
that they do the menial tasks, aside 
from the artistic, does not lessen, but 
rather increases their popularity. 
They write their own plays, about the 
Carolina mountaineers, direct them, 
act them, make their costumes and 
construct and paint their scenery. 

Since they are making a tour of 
the southern colleges we are especial- 
ly anxious to have them here. 


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If it is immoral to needlessly im- 
pair the body’s vitality, then lack of 
sleep is Colby’s most prevalent im- 
morality. Students who ought to be 
firm-nerved, straight thinking, and 
clear-eyed go through their college 
course with a perpetual tired feeling, 
irritable, sluggish-eyed, and lanquid- 
brained. They sit torpidly through 
classes and wonder why the professors 
are so boresome. 


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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


Clyde Passmore, ’25 Nellie Richardson, ’26 
Emily Stead, ’28 Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
Mamie Shaw, ’27 Emily Kingsberry, ’28 
Miriam Preston, ’27 Edith Richards, ’27 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 Janet McDonald, ’28 
Mary Heath, ’27 Carolyn Essig, ’28 

Julia Pope, ’25 Emily Ehrlich, ’27 


Agnes Scott has been unusually fortunate this year in securing 
a number of speakers on Vocational Guidance. There is nothing 
of more interest to a college and to the students of a college than 
to learn the fields of activity open to its students who have com- 
pleted their course in college. It has only been since the war that 
the business and professional fields of work have been opened 
to women. The North has made rapid progress in this and it is 
considered as usual to see college women in every field of activity. 
In the South, however, this progress has been slower, the aim 
of the colleges has been to meet the demand for teachers. Agnes 
Scott took the lead in this and became one of the leading scholastic 
colleges for women in the South. Agnes Scott has encouraged her 
students to enter this field of work because the administrators and 
faculty felt that in the South at that time it was the field in which 
her graduates could give the greatest service. 

Today, however, other colleges are pushing Agnes Scott in the 
teaching field and urging Agnes Scott to take the lead in the next 
step. Though Agnes Scott still wants many of her girls to. teach, 
yet she would have them know that other fields are open to them. 
The professions have opened their doors to college graduates, and 
with training they may now become lawyers, doctors, statisticians, 
or enter secretarial work. The college girl of today has a wonder- 
ful opportunity for success. We hope and urge the Seniors of 
Agnes Scott to enter some of these new fields of work, that your 
success will not only bring credit to you but will also bring honor 
to your Alma Mater. 


They slump dis- 
mally into a chair and feed their 
minds on whatever takes the least 
mental effort. They wish that some- 
thing would happen and wonder why 
they do not have enough “pep” to 
start anything. Fatigue poison has 
lost far more athletic contests for 
Colby than nicotine or alcohol. 


Margaret Waviwiene 


A few men seem to be able to op- 
erate indefinitely on a very little 
sleep. ... But the chances are a hun- 
dred to one that you can not. You 
can get along on five or six hours 
a night for a long time, but the ac- 
cumulated fatigue will eventually take 
its toll. Nature always collects her 
bills. 

Colby would be a better place to 
live in if the nerves of all the men 
were kept toned and sweet by a gen- 
erous measure of sleep. Let us pray 
with “Robert Louis the Beloved”: 

“Give us to go blithely about our 
business all this day and bring us to 
our resting bed weary, content, and 
undishonored, and grant us in the end 
the gift of sleep.” 

The above taken from the Colby 
Echo of Colby University at Water- 
ville, Maine, might as suitably be ap- 
plied to Agnes Scott. Take warning 
from this and let it not be said of the 
Agnes Scott students that they are 
bored and have no initiative or “pep” 
because of a lack of sleep. 


VARSITY HOCKEY TEAM PLAYS 
THE ALUMNAE. 


The varsity hockey team played the 
Alumnae last Friday afternoon. Each 
team played well; in fact so well that 
the final score was 2 and 2. It is 
needless to mention the merits of the 
Varsity, each of us know them al- 
ready; but oh, you should have seen 
those Alumnae play. The saying 
goes, “Practice makes perfect”; well, 
this game was the exception to the 
rule, for the Alumnae team came near 
perfection, and when have they had 
opportunity for practice? 

It was some two weeks ago that 
the Varsity challenged the Alumnae. 
And those that “have gone on be- 
fore” responded: 

It may be we’re thought passe 

Compared with those we are 

asked to play. 

Out of practice we may lack 

Wind enough, but not the knack 

To give the Varsity a scare; 

Name the day and we’ll be there. 

This reply was extremely apt, for 
the graduates of “days gone by” cer- 
tainly did have the “knack,” and the 
Varsity without a doubt had its 
“seare.”” 

The line-ups will give an idea of 
how the game was played. Of course, 
Nonie Peck was the Alumna star; 
one year out of school does not seem 
to have affected her ability as center 
halfback. 

Varsity vs. Alumnae: 

J. Walker, c.f. ........Ethel Ware, c.f. 
[E71 Bll os Cees eee ne Helen Waite, r.i. 
B. Walker, 1.3. ........---- D. F Smith, Li. 
Preston, r.w. ....Elizabeth Henry, r-w. 
D. Owen, l.w...-..... Betty Floding, l.w. 
BOVEY Os -<comoroes Nonie Peck, c¢.h. 
E. Powell, r-h. ...... Gusta Thomas, rh. 
Wain, TBs -scacsensas-- Janef Preston, 1h. 
M. A. McKinney, r-f.....Ruth Hall, r-f. 
G. McKennon, L-.....Martha Eakes, 

G. McKennon, If.f. .Mary Goodrich, lf. 
Bowers, 2.2. --.... Martha Eakes, g.g. 

J. Walker substituted for Mary 
Keesler and M. Preston played first 
half game for Scheussler. 


DR. VALERIA PARKER 
DRESSES SOCIOLOGY 


STUDENTS 


AD- 


men. St. Louis became expert in 
dealing with husbands who had de- 
serted their wives and refused to sup- 
port their families. Mrs. Van Winkle 
has done very effective work in Wash- 
ington. Her methods of case investi- 
gation are of the best type, and have 
shown that the delinquent girl, who 
needs the protection and care of the 
police woman, is the girl with a bad 
background. Often the delinquent girl 
is from a poor, neglected home, and 
has had little or no education. There 
is an increasing demand for the 
trained woman who can do police 
work. The International Association 
of Police Women, which is really not 
an international association at all, 
but an association of police women 
formed with the idea of an interna- 
tional scope, hopes to have a real in- 
ternational conference in May. The 
association is expanding and has a 
field secretary to hold institutes, go 
to colleges, and visit communities. 

What can the police woman do? In 
the present day it is true that young 
people are seeking amusement outside 
of the home. The police woman can 
report bad conditions and see that the 
licenses of dance halls and other 
places. of amusement which give 
wrong standards of life are taken 
away. She becomes familiar with 
street loiterers, and is thus enabled 
to protect and help young girls. She 
is in truth a community mother. 

The question of rehabilitation is one 
of interest. Some cases are put on 
probation and are carefully watched 
and helped. Others are taken care of 
in institutions. The cottage system 
has proved to be very effective. One 
cottage has about forty girls and a 
house mother. The right kind of ideals 
and standards are given to the girls 
if possible. 

The English police service for wo- 
men developed more rapidly than ours, 
and the idea of the work spread to 
Germany and Belgium. The Latin 
countries are doing nothing along this 
line, but the more progressive nations 
are realizing the value and importance 
of the work. All success to the police 
woman and her work! 


Calls Police Woman 
Mother.” 


“Community 


He 


Miss Davis, head of the department 
of Sociology and Economics at Agnes 
Scott, secured Dr. Valeria H. Parker, 
M. D., of the Department of Protec- 
tive Measures of the American Social 
Hygiene Association, who has been in 
Atlanta for the past week in connec- 
tion with the Institute of Social 
Hygiene, to come and lecture to us 
in the chapel at five o’clock on Fri- 
day afternoon. The lecture was given 
-especially for students of Sociology 
-and Economics, but all who were in- 
terested were invited to be present. 
Dr. Parker’s subject was “What the 
Police Woman Has Accomplished.” 

Dr. Parker told us that the police 
woman, in spite of her rather formid- 

-able-sounding name, is very feminine. 
The fact that woman has gone into 
this field of work does not mean that 
she has become masculine in tempera- 
ment. She has done her work, but 
has lost none of her charm or wo- 
manliness. 

The history of the police woman is 
very scattered. Woman's entrance 
into the police department was 
through the very humble position of 
jail matron. Up until 1882 there were 
only men jailers. As the pay was 
poor, only men of a low standard held 
these positions, and. they took advant- 
age of the situation. In 1882 through 
the influence of the Women’s Chris- 
tian Temperance Union, a woman s€- 

cured a place as jail matron, and the 
career of the police woman had its 
beginning. In 1905 in Portland, Ore- 
gon, women were appointed as pro- 
tective officers to take charge of 
young and ignorant girls who came 
from the country. In 1910 Alice Wells 
was made a police woman in Los An- 
geles, California, and a year later 
other women were appointed for the 
same type of work and put under the 
civil service. Large cities were na- 
turally the first to have police wo- 


GLEE CLUB GIVES RECITAL 


The members of the vocal depart- 
ment are inaugurating a series of de- 
lightful recitals under the direction 
of their instructor, Mr. Johnston. 
These are given each Wednesday eve- 
ning and are disclosing some most 
interesting talent. Particulars will 
be given as the programs are de- 
veloped. 


COMMUNITY BACKGROUNDS 


In the last analysis our universities 
will reflect the standards of Ameri- 
ean civilization. We exist 
apart from that which creates us. If 
American home life changes, the uni- 


cannot 


versities will change either for the 
better or for the worse. When the 
average community honors learning 
and scholarship the universities will 
thrive. When boys and girls come 
from homes where, without argument, 
it is assumed that music and poetry, 
art and aesthetics, learning and cul- 
ture are among the abiding values of 
life, then we shall have less difficulty 
in finding and developing the vital 
factor in university life. It is not the 
conclusions that we hammer out in 
hard logic that dominate life. It is 
our instinctive assumptions and our 
almost subconscious inferences that 
rule us. Today in the average home 
in America the unquestioned motive 
is the amassing of money. The ideal 
man in America today is the powerful 
executive, the organizing genius, the 
business magnate, the dominating fi- 
nancier. Now America needs him and 
must have him. Economic prosperity 
lies at the basis of our ultimate great- 
ness. But can there not be more room 
for the poet, the author, the scientist, 
the college professor, the research 
worker; cannot American youths 
grow up understanding that these men 
are highly valuable to civilization and, 
to speak boldly if not vulgarly, a 
credit to the family that rears one? 
When the public sends us students 
nurtured in a background of this kind 
we shall find more possible to develop 
the vital factor in university life. 

President Burton, University of 

Michigan. 


SENIORS ENTERTAIN SOPHO- 
MORE SISTERS 


The Propylean Hall Wednesday aft- 
ernoon was the scene of the Senior- 
Sophomore Tea. The Hall was beau- 
tifully decorated with yellow chrysan- 
themums which added their bright- 
ness to the merriment of the faces. 
Several musical numbers started off 
the program of the evening. Then 
Mary Ben Wright recited a piece of 
the Old South amd gave a very hu- 
morous interpretation of an old negro 
mammy. Martha Lin Manley, presi- 
dent of the Senior Class. presented 
the Sophomore sisters with the rings 
of their Senior sisters. Punch and 
sandwiches were served while the 
piano played by Bright Daniel, filled 
the atmosphere with familiar tunes. 
This entertainment is only one of the 
many kind expressions of love exist- 
ing betweem the sisters of the Sopho- 
more and Senior classes. The tea 
ended around six, and each Soph 
proud of wearing: her sister’s ring left 
with a feeling of love which was felt 
by each Big Sister. 


MISS McDOUGALL HONORED 


Miss Mary Stuart McDougall, head 
of the Biology department, has re- 
cently received a very great honor. 
Her paper written on certain discov- 
eries she made while doing research 
work in Embryology during the last 
two years, entitled “Cytological Ob- 
servations. on Chlemydodent Citiates,” 
is to be printed in the “Quarterly 
Journal of Microscopical Science,” 


Intercollegiate 


News 


In a recent contest held by the 
“Watchtower” of Wesleyan College, 
the title of “Give and Take,” written 
by Miss Mary K. Read, of Savannah, 
won the prize for the most appro- 
priate name for the exchange column 
of that institution. 


The most unfortunate letter in the 
alphabet, some say is the letter “E,” 
because it is always out of “cash,” 
forever in “debt,” never out of danger 
and in “hell” all the time. That’s 
all true, still it’s never in “war,” al- 
ways in “peace,” and always in some- 
thing to- “eat.” It is the beginning 
of “existence,” the commencement of 
“ease” and the end of “trouble.” 
Without it there could be no “life,” 
no “heaven.” It is the center of 
“honesty” and always in “love.” It 
is the beginning of “endeavor” and the 
end of “failure.’—Exchange. 


A new policy is being Iaunched by 
the “Technique,” by which the same 
man will not have charge of the pa- 
per every week. Jor instance, one 
issue will be managed by the editor- 
in-chief and an assistant of the board. 
An assistant editor and an assistant 
on the board will publish the next is- 
sue. Thus the plan is to rotate the 
responsibilities, giving every man the 
chance to learn how the whole scheme 
or any part is operated; and at the 
same time to disclose any new ideas 
that may be lying dormant at present. 


At the last meeting of the Council 
of Deans at Emory University it was 
decided that the grade “A-plus’” 
should never more be conferred upon 
Emory men. Henceforth the highest 
grade to be given is “A” which is 
symbolic of excellent work. 


Minnie: “Be ye sneezin’, honey?” 
Rastus: “Naw, I ain’t  sneezin’ 
honey; I’se sneezin’ sneeze. What yo 
think mah nose is, a beehive?” 
—The Hornet. 


Girls who have cut gymnasium 
classes at Guilford College, North 
Carolina, are paying the penalty of 
working off those cuts by raking 
leaves, chopping wood, or marking 
off the tennis courts. Forty-five 


minutes of labor with the rake frees: 
one from a “cut.” 
Excuses.. 
Tuesday. 
F—elt too tired to study. 
Wednesday.. 
L—ost my lesson on the way.. 
Thursday. 
U—sed up all my pager. 
Friday: 
N—o, I really couldn’t see. 
Saturday 


K—new it once, but. have: forgottem 
it now. 
—The: Sullins Scoop. 


which is one of the leading biological 
magazines, and is published by an 
English editor, 

Agnes Scott feels greatly honored 
to have Miss McDougall as a mem- 
ber of her faculty, especially as she 


‘has refused some very flattering of- 


fers in order to come back to ws. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 
gant buildings with modern conven- 
iences, full and able faculty. Courses 


leading to A. B. 


degree. Best ad- 


vantage in music and art. 


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GIDDIE GOS$$sIP 


Well, Giddy, Thanksgiving is over, 
but I did have the best time you ever 
heard of. It was turkey sure enough, 
and everything that goes with it and 
after supper—oh, dinner, I mean— 
we danced and danced and danced 
over in the gym. 


And, Giddy, I went to the game, 
too. You know—the Thanksgiving 
football game between Ga. Tech and 
Auburn and it was so good. I just 
can’t get over getting asked to go to 
it by a b-o-y when I'm so far away 
from home. It’s the same one I wrote 
you about having a date with. I’m 
not going to tell you his name tho’ 
because you wouldn’t appreciate it— 
very few people do he says and I’m 
one of them. 

Anyway he’s real nice and I like 
him lots. 

Not very much of interest—rather 
things that would interest you—has 
happened this week. There was one 
real funny thing tho’ and that was 
the hockey game between the faculty 
and the varsity team. I didn’t get on 
it but one freshman did. 

You should have been here to see 
that game tho’, Friday morning the 
students challenged the faculty, and 
they (the faculty) replied in the fun- 
niest speech I ever heard—(when I 
get my Aggie I'll send it to you to 
read it). They charged a dime to see 
the game and I had eleven pennies so 
I just gave them the extra one for 
good measure. Later on I_ heard 
somebody say they made $14.61—and 
they were wondering where the 1 cent 
came from—but I didn’t tell them. 
There were loads of people there— 
about 146 I guess (if my mathe- 
matics is right) and Mary Mackey 
Hough was one of them. She was 
standing on the side line and all at 
once she said real seriously—“Who 
is that lady down there with the green 
striped skirt on. Isn’t she acting 
crazy.” And it was Helena Hermance, 


MR. L. C. MANDEVILLE, IMPOR- 
TANT MEMBER OF BOARD 
OF TRUSTEES 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


of New York state, and Mrs. Mary 
Anne Stewart Mandeville, of Derby, 
Vt., who, newly married, came as 
pioneers to Georgia in 1833. They 
settled in Carroll county, which was 
then sparsely inhabited. Mr. Mande- 
ville then took up much land and laid 
the foundation for later prosperity. 

Mr. L. C. Mandeville was first 
taught by his older sister, since there 
were no schools in the county then. 
Later he attended private school and 
the public school of Carrollton. He 
entered the mercantile business in 
Carrollton and has done moré to build 
up that city and county than any 
other citizen. He became president of 
the Mandeville Cotton and Oil Mills, 
which was later reorganized as the 
Mandeville Mills, and which is one of 
the most successful companies in the 
south. He is also president of the 
First National Bank in Carrollton 
and is a director or stockholder of 
nearly all the leading enterprises of 
that section. 

In boyhood, Mr. Mandeville joined 
the Carrollton ‘Presbyterian church 
and for many years since has served 
the church as deacon and treasurer. 
At present he is senior elder and the 
superintendent of the Sunday school. 

He has always been noted for hos- 
pitality. At a recent meeting of the 
Presbytery in Carrollton, he insisted 
on entertaining all of the delegates 
for part of the time, though he, him- 
self, was sick in the hospital. 

He is interested in all educational 
work and has established a scholar- 
ship at the Montreat Normal as well 
as at Agnes Scott; he has donated the 
only endowment funds now possessed 
by the Nacoochee Institute, and is in- 
terested in helping a student at Flora 
McDonald College. He is also a trus- 
tee of Oglethorpe University, and is 
treasurer of the Fourth District Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical School. It 
was chiefly through his influence that 
this last school was secured for Car- 
rollton. 

Thus we see that Mr. Mandeville’s 
time is in great demand, and we ap- 
preciate very much his sacrifice of 
time as an active member of our 
board of trustees, and also the finan- 
cial aid he has given so unselfishly. 


dressed up fit to kill with two beauty 
spots and a red jacket, green skirt 
and plumey hat leading songs and 
yells. 

And Giddy, do you know that Dr. 
J. R. McCain, the president of Agnes 
Scott, played goal guard for the fac- 
ulty? Yes, sir! he surely did and 
believe me he was a good one. One 
time a ball was coming thru the goal 
and he hit it just as hard as he could 
and there was Miss Howson standing 
about two yards away. Of course she 
was in the ball’s way so it hit her— 
hard too, and Dr. McCain was so em- 


barrassed he didn’t know what to do 
so he let the students make a goal. 

And Mr. Cunningham! (He’s busi- 
ness manager, you know). You should 
have seen him trip over his own stick 
and roll over about four times be- 
fore he could find out where he was 
and get on his correct understanding 
again. And they were all dressed so 
crazy—with little goatees and every- 
thing. 

It was worth a good dime and I’m 
glad I gave them eleven cents. 

Giddy, you’ve heard of Speedy King 
haven’t you? She graduated last year 
and they call her Speedy because she’s 
so slow, and absent minded, too. Well, 
she was here the other day and was 
talking to Walkie Perry—and you 
know Walkie’s got bobbed hair like 
most of the rest of us. And Walkie 
said, “Well, Speedy, I see you haven’t 
bobbed your hair yet.” And Speedy 
very absent mindedly said, “No-o-o, 
have you?” I'd hate to be that ab- 
sent minded wouldn’t you? 

Giddy do you know what an opti- 
mist is—the latest definition of one 
I mean? II don’t think you do so I'll 
tell you—it’s a cross-eyed man who’s 
thankful he’s not bow-legged. 

Ink’s giving out. I cut bangs the 
other day and here’s what I look like 

AGGIE. 


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The Y. W. C. A. wishes to express 
to Dr. Lilly its sincerest appreciation 
of the talks he has made to us and 
the inspiration he has been to the 
whole campus. We have all felt a 
personal contact which we have re- 
ceived from few other lecturers; and 
we hope we may be able to carry the 
inspiration we have received, through 
the rest of the year. 

One of the best ways of living up 
to his teachings and to the confidence 
he has in us as women, is to find a 
church home; and give to it the best 
we have and let it give its best to 
us. Thus far only about one hundred 
and twenty-five girls have affiliated 
with a church. Does this mean that 
the rest are to spend the time as 
vagabonds, just wandering from one 
church to another with no special 
loyalty to any? We _ hope not, 
Church affiliation does not mean that 
you have to attend one special church 
all the time; it only means that you 
have a church home—a place where 
you will be welcome, and where you 
have a right to turn as you would 
turn to your own home. 

Each girl needs a church of her 
own just as she needs a home, some- 
times in the temporary absence of 
a home we are prone to think it means 
that we cannot have a church either; 
but this is not so, we may have a 
church, we need it, so all who can, 
think of the love you bear your home 
church, and affiliate somewhere in 
the city. 


ed 


NEW GYMNASIUM BUILDING TO 
BE STARTED AT ONCE 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


to be laundered and put back into the 
basket lockers (they are never to be 
removed from the gym building), a 
hair-drying established for the bene- 
fit of swimmers; and a kitchen, from 
which lunches can be served. 

On the main floor are the offices 
of the physical directors and the 
college doctor, rest rooms and 
physical examination rooms; a 
main gymnasium floor, 70x90 feet, on 
which two games, of basketball, for 
instance, can be played at once; and, 
on one end of the story, a smaller 
gymnasium floor, raised three and a 
half feet. The raised floor can be 
converted into a stage by means of 
movable foot-lights, and the main 
floor into an auditorium, with the use 
of folding chairs which are stored 
under the raised floor. 

The third floor will consist only of 
a balcony, seating two hundred and 
seventy people, and six rooms for col- 
lege organizations, on one side; and, 
on the other side, of a room where 
lights can be shifted upon the stage 
below. 

Such is a brief outline of the first 
building of our Greater Agnes Scott. 
It is to be hoped that, as the build- 
ing rises, sufficient interest will be 
aroused in it to secure the funds nec- 
essary for completing the building en- 
tirely by next September. 


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| MISS GOOCH READ “SAINT JOAN” 
FOR ATLANTA DRAMA 
LEAGUE 


Miss Gooch read Bernard Shaw’s 
Saint Joan before the Drama League 
in the ballroom of the Biltmore, Tues- 
day evening, November twenty-fifth. 

With her usual grace and dignity, 
Miss Gooch presented the reading of 
this play, and charmed her audience 
as she has done many times previous- 
ly. ‘ 

At the regular meeting of Black- 
friars on Friday before the meeting 
of the Drama League, Miss Gooch 
read “Saint Joan,” and the members 
were delighted with her interpretation 
of the play. 

Last year Miss Gooch read “Rob- 
ert E. Lee,” and this reading with va- 
rious others assured Miss Gooch’s 
ability and reputation. 


VIRGINIA CLUB HOLDS MEETING 


Mary Junkin and Ruth Thomas en- 
tertained the Virginia Club at its 
monthly meeting on Friday, Novem- 
ber 21, in Mr. Dieckmann’s studio. 
The meeting was chiefly one of pleas- 
ure rather than business. 


Pocahontas 
Wight read a monologue of her own 
composition, “The Mountain Woman.” 
Both through presentation and au- 
thorship, Pokie “did herself proud,” 
which isn’t a meager phrase in praise. 

Miss McKinney then told the club 
of her trip to Richmond, Va., and 
Charlotte, N. C. Miss McKinney was 
invited to come to Charlotte by the 
Agnes Scott Alumnae of that city, 
to investigate forming an Alumnae 
association there. She told of her de- 
lightful meetings with the old Agnes 
Scott girls. Though nothing has been 
decided as to the founding of the 
Alumnae Association in Charlotte, 
definite steps will probably be taken 
in the near future. There is already 
such an organization at Richmond. 

After the serving of delightful re- 
freshments, the meeting was ad- 
journed. 


| BLACKFRIARS PRESENT THREE 


ONE-ACT PLAYS 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


Ezra Williams, Ellen Louglas Ley- 
burn. 
Peter, Sarah Slaughter. 
Inez Edith Carpenter. 
Mis’ Elmira Moran, Elizabeth Grif- 
fin, 
Mis’ Trot, Catherine Graeber. 
Mis’ Carry Ellsworth, Ellen Walker. 
Scene: The kitchen of Mis’ Abel’s 
home. 
Time: The present. 
The Romancers 
(Edna Rostand) 
Sylvette, Josephine Schuessler. 
Percinet, Isabelle Clarke. 
Straforel, Florence Perkins. 
Bergamin, father of Percinet, Ellen 


Alumnae News 


Elizabeth Dunwody Hall (Mrs. W. 
D.) who lives in Kirkwood, is the busy 
mother of three boys. 

Allie Felker (Mrs. J. Nunnally), ex. 
1911, has a daughter who is almost 
ready for college. She says perhaps 
they can get their A. B.’s together. 

Vivian Gregory, ex. 1921, is to be 
married December 1 to Mr. D. C. Dun- 
gan, of Salisbury, N. C. 

Frances Arant, ex 23, is living in 
Birmingham with her brother. 

Annie Tate Jenkins, ’14, is teaching 
English in a high school in her home 
town, Crystal Springs, Miss. She 
says that living at home, keeping up 
her church and civic duties fills her 
days to overflowing. 

Florence Brinkley, ’14, received her 
doctor’s degree in English at Yale 
last June. She has been chosen 2nd 
vice-president of the Administrative 
Council of Sigma Tau Delta, a pro- 
fessional English fraternity. 

Helen Lane Comfort, ’24, is teach- 
ing at St. Catherine’s School in Da- 
venport, Ohio. 

Emily Keyes, ’20, is a reporter on 
the Palm Beach Post, West Palm 
Beach, Fla. 

Magara Waldron Crosby (Mrs. L. 
S.) class of ’16, writes that her young 
daughter, Baby Gay (Magara, Jr.), 
is almost a year old. She has pretty 
brown eyes and russet brown curls. 

Among the guests at the Alumnae 
House Thanksgiving were: Louise 
Slack, Julia Haygood, Ruth Crowell, 
Alice Whipple, Ruth Evans, Elizabeth 
Brown, Quenelle Harold, Mary Evelyn 
King and Marion Cawthorne. 


MEETING OF B. O. Z. 


B. O. Z. held a recent meeting in 
Elizabeth Cheatham’s room. With the 
exception of Mrs. Drickmann, all the 
members of the club were present, in- 
cluding the two who have just been 
admitted, Georgia Mae Little and Vir- 
ginia Hollingsworth, Only one story 
was read, and that by Ellen Walker. 
After the discussion of the story, de- 
lightful refreshments were served, and 
the meeting then adjourned. 


Douglass Leyburn. 

Pasquinot, father of Sylvette, Poca- 
hontas Wight. 

Swordsmen, Sarah Slaughter, Edith 
Carpenter. 

Scene: Adjoining gardens of Berga- 
min and Pasquinot, 

Time: When you will, 

Joint Owners In Spain 
(Alice Brown.) 

Mrs. Mitchell, Frances Amis. 

Mrs. Fullerton, Elizabeth Griffin. 

Miss Dyer, Louisa Duls. 

Mrs. Blair, Pocahontas Wight. 

Scene: A room in the Home of Old 
Ladies, 

Time: The present. 

Frances K. Gooch, Dramatic Di- 
rector. 

Mary Ben Wright, President. 

Josephine Schuessler, Stage Mgr. 

Florence Perkins, Property Mgr. 

Music furnished by the Agnes Scott 
Violin Ensemble Class. Mary Doug- 
las, Director. 


Si 


The Proper Apparel 
for the College Miss 


ance. 


Correct 


At Agnes Scott 


HERE are unwritten rules about ap- 
parel for the College Miss and Frohsin’s 
Fashions are the accepted mode. 
common-place, fitting into every occasion as 
easily as they fit into a College Girl’s allow- 


Never 


Frohsin's 


Dress for Women 


3O WHITBRALL 


THE 


AGONISTI 


C. 


Aggie's Funny Bone 


“Do you use William’s 
cream?” 
“No, he’s not rooming with us any- 


more.” 


Famous Sayings for This Week. 
“So this is Paris”—Helen of Troy. 
“The first hundred years are the 

hardest.”—Methuselah. 


Jack: “My sister says she is off 
of these Ensigns for life.” 

Tar: “Why?” 

Jack: “She had some of them up 
to the house to a mah jongg party 
and when someone yelled ‘chow’ they 
almost upset the house.” 


Country: “Just think of our forest 
preserve.” 
City: “How about our subway 


jams?” 


“T hit her in the cranium 
Yes, I biffed her on the head. 
For she was only my alarm clock 
And I was still in bed.” 


} After Circus Hours. 

Doctor: “What’s the excitement? 
The whole bunch of you seem scared 
to death.” 

Employee: “Oh, the sword swal- 
lower swallowed a pin.” 


“T guess I'll never go to another 
dance with Lucyle.” 

“Why, ’d she turn you down?” 

“Naw, she died last night.” 


Unpopular Sengs. 

It is rumored that a great many 
of these “Go home to mother and 
dad” songs were written by college 
deans. 


At the Sanford Costume Ball. : 
Cynthia: “Oh, you're this Andoni- 
——————————————— 
DR. PETERS LECTURES AGAIN 
ON VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE” 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


European, and the warm, artistic 
South European, finally came togeth- 
er, and the result of their mingling 
we find in the home life of our own 
South today. It is the duty of the 
South to preserve this kind of home 
for America. 

Now, as long as the home found 
itself in a rural setting, the woman’s 


whole time was needed there. She 
spun, and wove, and knitted, and 
Then 


cooked, and reared children. 
came the Industrial Revolution;” and 
it is this,’ said Dr. Peters, “which 
brought you to college.” Woman was 
no longer called on to make cloth, 
to spend all day over a hot stove, to 
wash by hand the family clothes; 
machinery, gas, electricity did all all 
these. Woman was left to ‘“eisure 
and conspicuous expenditure,” and for 
her amusement she invented “styles.” 
Next came the doctors, and decreased 
mortality, lessened the size of the 
family. And the school stretched out 
a compelling hand, and took the child 
away from home. Woman was left 
without housework, without a large 
family, and separated from even the 
few children she had, from the kin- 
dergarten age on. “And she has de- 
cided,” continued Dr. Peters, “that 
she doesn’t want to stay at home.” 
So today she is looking for oppor- 
tunities of work. ‘Women’s jobs to- 
day are the same as they have been 
through all ages, but they are spe- 
cialized, not to the family, but to the 
community.” 

In the concluding speech of the 
series which she has ‘been making 


since October the thirtieth, Dr. 
Peters praised Agnes Scott very 
highly. In telling why Vocational 


Guidance had not been established at 
this college, “the light of the South- 
east,” she said that Agnes Scott has 
been furnishing the best teachers to 
the South and holding up that stan- 
dard of high scholarship which other 
Southern colleges are now trying to 
attain. 

Dr. Peters continued that it is hard 
for colleges to realize that graduates 
need recommendations other than 
those from the faculty. There are 
so many things that teachers do not 
know, and can not know about the 
students. A way of surmounting this 


shaving | cus, aren’t you, Hugh?” 


Hugh: “I dunno who this guy An- 
dronicus is, but if he’s any tighter 
than I am, I’d like to see him.” 


Dumb Dora Is Thankful That: 
Niagra Falls but it still stands. 
The balloon tires haven’t gone up 
in the air. 

The matches’ strike hasn’t 
creased the purchase price. 

The circus is in town, and she didn’t 
have to walk a mile for a camel. 

She has never seen a horse fly. 


in- 


“Darling,” he cried in tender tones 
“T ne’er have loved but thee.” 
“Then we must part,” the maiden 
said; 
“No amateurs for me.” 


With Napoleon. 

“Man, yoh sho’ am som’ chap fur. 
Yoh all call yohself ah mechanic and 
heah yo’ll is without any tools.” 

“T ax yo’, do Napoleon carry 
aroun’ his cannons and guns, do he?” 


Keys. 
Co.: “We have 74 keys up at our 
house and none of them fit a lock.” 
Ed.; “If they’re no good, why don’t 
you throw them away?” 
Co.: “Oh, we couldn't 
piano without them.” 


play the 


We wonder if these crime “waves” 
are “permanent.” 


They say that one can’t call a mod- 
ern girl “pensive” without pre-fixing 


“ex” to it. 
2S EEE 
difficulty, which the Vocational 


Guidance Board advocates, is the trial 
method. Graduates are given simpli- 
fied occupations under supervision the 
the first year, and all of their quali- 
ties discovered and taken into consid- 
eration in giving recommendations. 
This is proving very successful in the 
great research laboratories and de- 
partment stores of the north. 

Dr. Peters related several personal 
experiences regarding the trials and 
tribulations encountered by the “Vo- 
cational guiders” in striving to place 
girls where they are best suited. She 
made us realize how many and how 
slight are the factors which go to 
make for success or failure in any 
given case. 

The women in college now, she 
pointed out, should be very grateful 
for the opportunities in all fields of 
service which are made possible for 
them by the hard struggles of past 
generations of college women. One 
of the greatest assets which we can 
acquire, Dr. Peters concludde, is the 
professional point of view. This 
means knowing why a thing goes 
right, and what to do when it goes 
wrong. 

As a result of Dr. Peters’ visit, our 
college has taken statistics of the oc- 
cupations in which our graduates of 
22 and ’23 are now engaged. Reports 


were obtained on all but one girl and 


the results are as follows: 

Out of 122 graduates for ’22 and ’23. 

59% teaching. 

21% married. 

10% doing graduate work. 

16% in business. 

7% in social or religious work. 

7% at leisure. 

Dr. Peters accounts for our large 
per cent of teachers by pointing out 
that teaching is perhaps the best paid 
job that a graduate can obtain, at 
least for the first few years after her 
graduation, and that there is a great 
need in the south for teachers. 
—————————————————————— 
THANKSGIVING CELEBRATIONS 

(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


the happy travelers. 

When we fell in bed at eleven 
o'clock that night, we just couldn’t see 
how we could go to an eight o’clock 
class Friday! But then Thanksgiving 
Day was gone, but only three more 
weeks until Christmas holidays! 
—_—————————————————E 
MR. MOORE ADDRESSES BIBLE 

CLUB 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


is stressed throughout the four years; 
and all the professors are most care- 
ful not to try to enforce their own 
opinions upon their scholars. 


Day Student News 


Can you imagine Jo Marbut not 
counting her chickens before they are 
hatched? 


Can you imagine Mary Lynes not 
in love? 

Can you imagine Isabelle Clarke 
not making a fascinating hero? 


Can you imagine Katherine Gillil- 
and without her thermos bottle? 


Can you imagine Alex and Jo Anne 
not inseparable? 

Can you imagine Alice Greenlea in 
a hurry? 

Can you imagine Ruth Guffin find- 
ing fault with anything chemical? 

Can you imagine Mary Smith not 
interested in North Carolina? 

Can you imagine Frances Gardiner 
with bobbed hair? 

Can you imagine Frances Sprat- 
ling approving of anything? 

Can you imagine Margaret Rogers 
dumb? 

Can you imagine Mellie Zellars not 
having dates? 

Can you imagine Marguerite Burn- 
ley talking loudly without her frat 
pin? 

Can you imagine Sarah Smith shed- 
ding gloom? 

Can you imagine Juanita without 
Margaret and Rosalie? 

Can you imagine Anna Knight and 
Sarah White unperturbed? 

Can you imagine Elizabeth Chap- 
man without her curls? 

Can you imagine “Red” Hudson 
without her letter from New York? 

Can you imagine Lora Lee Turner 
not being a “who’s who” on fraterni- 
ties? 

Can you imagine Helen Speights not 
being an “avenging angel”? 

And now if your imagination is not 
too grealty overworked, try to imag- 
ine Agnes Scott without its day stud- 
ents. 

———— 
DR. LILLY LEADS DISCUSSION 
GROUP SUNDAY NIGHT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


other student asked about the nature 
of heaven and hell. Dr. Lilly said 
that all through the Bible heaven and 
hell are referred to as places and 
not conditions. To the inquiry as to 
whether we can believe in Christ and 
not believe in His divinity, Dr. Lilly 
gave an emphatic “no.” 

Dr. Lilly discussed in answer to 
other questions the Virgin birth and 
the place of evolution in religion. He 
also declared his belief in a personal 
devil and said that throughout the 
Bible, the devil is shown to be a per- 
son. 

Dr. Lilly was very informal in this 
discussion group and explained, ac- 


cording to his study and imterpreta- 


tion of the Bible, these great ques- 
tions. Some felt that this one talk 


alone would have made Dr. Lilly’s vis- 


it very beneficial and worthwhile. 


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Students Enjoy the Life at Pine 
Lodge 

The campers for last week-end had 

the most thrilling experience! None 

of the crowd had ever been to Pine 

Lodge before; all they knew was that 

the hut was situated on the south side 


of the mountain. The girls left the 
ear line and followed the tourists to 
the trail. Where it began to slope up- 
ward they left the path and struck 
out to the right about the base of 
the massive rock. They wandered 
hither and thither, Elizabeth Callen 
and Ruth Evans Massangill vieing 
with each other as to who could see 
the most imaginary huts; huge trees 
in the distance and even big boulders 
would be mistaken for the cherished 
lodge. 

Finally, Virginia Browning gave a 
war-whoop, “This way, girls, I see the 
camp.” Everyone rushed up the side 
‘of a small hill and behold,—there, set 
in a landscape of beautiful autumn- 
colored trees, was the neatest little 
green and white cottage. Surely this 
was our Agnes Scott rendezvous. 
Someone started on to the porch when 
out rushed three poodle dogs. Agnes 
Scott was not accustomed to keeping 
a menagerie, so this was some one’s 
home. Where, oh where, was Pine 
Lodge? 

Faint of heart and weary of feet 
the lost campers trudged onward; and 
soon the object of their quest appear- 
ed in sight. It was a wee little cot- 
tage set at the very foot of the moun- 
tain. Everyone rushed in; packs were 
laid aside, and a fire kindled on the 
hearth. Soon night descended and 
the candles were lit. Such a cheery 
place you’ve never seen. 

The evening was spent in toasting 
marshmallows nad reading stories. 
Sunday morning everyone was up 
early; breakfast was cooked; and then 
all were away on a tour of explora- 
tion about the mountain. The group 
climbed to the top and beheld the 
view of the surrounding country; then 
they descended and completely cir- 
ecumseribed the huge structure—the 
stone quarry was investigated and the 
lakes viewed with exclamations of de- 
light. 

Night came again and with it the 
joy of a hot supper before an open 
fire. At last everyone went to bed 


only to arise at an early hour and 
hasten back to the college. 
If you want to he 


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boosters rave about a good time just 
talk to Mary Hedrick, Grace Ether- 
idge, Ruth Evans Massangill, Ladie 


Sue Wallace, Emily Daugherty, Nanie 
Graham Sanders, Elizabeth Callen, 
Mary Belle McConkey, Virginia 
Browning or Emily Jones. I dare say 
Miss Gault also might express favor- 
able comments about our week end 
eamping trips. At any rate she 
proved herself a splendid chaperon 
and a tried camper. 

A group consisting of Nan Lingle, 
Dudley Brown, Catherine Graeber, 
Mary Martha Lybrook, Lib Lilly, Car- 
dine McKinney, Peg Hyatt, Izzy Fer- 
guson, Jo North, Evelyn Sprinkle, El- 
sa Jacobsen and Eleanor Albright, 
Sara Smith, Jo Huntley, Louise Syd- 
nor, Georgia Watson, Ruth Hall and 
Evelyn Powell spent Thanksgiving 
at the camp. They went out Wednes- 
day immediately after dinner and re- 
turned Thursday afternoon. The pass 
word was “Bridge,” and boxes from 
home furnished the food. Miss Sin- 
claire chaperoned, and the holiday 
was pleasantly spent. 


He: “You sure do conceal your: 
whereabouts when you go out.” 

She: “No I don’t; EF leave them at 
home so the sisters ean wear them.” 


Give 
Muse 
Gifts — 


“GIVE HIM A MUSE GIFT” 


This is a list of some of the 
beautiful Muse gifts for 
“Him”. Then there is an en- 
tire Muse floor of gifts for 
Boys, and three Muse floors 
of gifts for HER. 


On the First Floor 


Silk Scarfs (including Swiss) 

Imported Wool Scarfs 

Silver Belt Buckles (with strap) 

Fine Muse Neckwear (including de- 
signs from the Rheims Cathedral) 

Handkerchiefs (plain or fancy) 

Silk Pajamas 

Dunhill (London) Pipes 

Cigarette Holders 

Cigarette Cases 

Cigar Cases 

Leather Pocketbooks 

Leather Cases for Checks 

Leather Wallets 

Leather Bill Folds 

Leather Match Cases 

Leather Case (to carry full pack of 
cigarettes ) 

Leather Case for Soft Collars 

Leather Case for Ties 

Leather Case for Starched Collars 

Leather Case for Handkerchiefs 

Imported Cigarette Lighters for Desks 

Imported Woolen Hosiery 

Imported Memo Books 

Sweater Coats (including pull overs) 

Shirts (Plain and Fancy), Collar at- 
tached 

Tech Sweater Coats 

Handbags and Suit Cases and Kits 

Cuff Links 

Clothes Brushes 
Stands 

Evening Vests 

Evening Shirts 

Belt Slides 

Dress and Dinner Sets 

Umbrellas 

Canes 

Golf Caps 

Golf Set of Sticks 

Golf Shirts (flannels, etc.) 

Golf Balls 

Golf Hose 

Golf Umbrella (in canvas case to strap 
on bag) 

Set of Coat Hangers (in leather case) 

Combination Clothes Brush and Hang- 
er (in leather case) 

Fitted Toilet Cases 

Wool-lined Gloves 

Fur-lined Gloves 

Chamois Sweater Coats 

Fancy Sweater Vests 


z 
Muse's 


“Where Christmas Begins” 


in Carved Animal 


Peachtree :: Walton :: Broad 


Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1924 


No. 12 


Lecture Association Brings Dr. 
James T. Shotwell to Agnes Scott 


“Protocol for Specific Settle- 
ment of Disputes’ Subject 
of Address 


According to “Who’s Who” and our 
Opinions, too, Agnes Scott was hon- 
ored by a singularly great and fam- 
ous speaker Monday night, in the 
person of Professor James T. Shot- 
well of Columbia University. He is 
in Atlanta on behalf of the great 
Federation of Churches now meet- 
ing, and his address here was of the 
‘same nature as his lecture before the 
Federation in the morning; He is 
deeply interested in the Geneva Pro- 
toco] to Outlaw War—or as the more 
official title goes—The Protocol for 
Specific Settlement of International 
Disputes; and this furnished the ma- 
terial for his recent lectures. 

Professor Shotwell is one of the 
Most prominent men on Columbia’s 
faculty. Aside from his duties in the 
History Department there, he is an 
important figure in Washington cir- 
‘eles as Chairman of the National 
Board for Historical Service. As an 
international figure, he is best known 
in connection with the Peace Confer- 
ence group from the United States, 
and, later, by his vital interest and 
influence in League negotiations, etc. 
He was chairman of the American 
‘group which drafted a plan for dis- 
armament and security for the 
League, and was an important factor 
in arranging for the present Proto- 
¢ol. Although a Canadian by birth, 
he has long served the United States 
in several invaluable capacities. The 
Lecture Association was more than 
fortunate in securing him during his 
‘short stay in Atlanta. 

Beyond this we can say no more, 
‘save for those who can hardly credit 
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Day Students Present 
Musical Comedy At 
Egleston Hall 


“The String "Em Girl’ Again 
Successfully Presented 


Egleston Hall was the scene of 
much festivity on Wednesday eve- 
ning, December 3rd, as on that eve- 
ning the Day Students again pre- 
sented their musical comedy, “The 
String "Em Girl.” Impossible as it 
May seem, the actresses rendered 
their parts even more admirably than 
they had previously. The chorus was 
exceptionally good, and received 
many encores, singing and dancing 
in a charming manner that was a de- 
light to all the audience. 

The different types of flappers of 
the periods of 1875, 1900 and 1924, 
portrayed by Rosalie Wooten, Vir- 
ginia Hollingsworth and Kitty John- 
son, respectively, again showed the 
ways in which our grandmothers and 
mothers are not so greatly different 
after all from the modern girl in 
their playful enjoyment of many mas- 
Culine friends. But after all, when 
“Mr. Right” finally came along, they 
all showed no hesitancy in their re- 
sponse. “Girls will be girls’”—no 
matter in what age they live. 

All the cast deserves credit for 
their able characterizations and their 
almost professional way in which 
they forgot themselves in their roles. 
There was no stage fright or nerv- 
ousness, but all acted with a rare de- 
gree of ease and ability. Those be- 
hind the scene rarely receive the ap- 
preciation they deserve, and special 
praise should go to Elizabeth Chap- 
man and Mary Knox for their 
achievement in the scenic effects, to 
Grace Zachry for her delightful 
music rendered. Needless to say, the 
greatest homage is paid to Mary 
Lynes and Mary Ben Wright, the au- 

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“The Conflict” 
Presented Before 
College Community 


Play Arouses Enthusiasm 
Among Students 


After the presentation on Decem- 
6 of “The Conflict” by the cast 
chosen to represent Agnes Scott in 
the intercollegiate contest at North- 
western University from December 
30 to January 1, the Agnes Scott 
students were enthusiastic in their 
praise of the excellent work done by 
Blackfriars. 

This one-act play, “The Conflict,” 
by Clarice Vallette McCauley, tells of 
the struggle a young girl has to 
make in order to express her indi- 
viduality and to be true to her own 
ideals against the stern opposition 
of her distrusting and unsympathetic 
mother, who uncompromisingly points 
out the girl's duty to her. This young 
girl, whose sense of duty has already 
made her victorious over her love for 
a certain married man and determin- 
ed her to go to another city than the 
one she has first intended to go to, 
in order to avoid meeting the man, 
because of her mother’s lack of faith, 
she is forced to go to the city where 
her lover awaits her arrival. After 
the daughter has left, the mother 
opens a telegram which shows her 
the wrong she has done in suspecting 
her child. 

The character of Emelie, the eld- 
est daughter, was interpreted with 
dignity and an earnestness of feel- 
ing by Isabel Ferguson. The mother 
was also represented with deep feel- 
ing and unusual realism by Mary 
Ben Wright. Mary Freeman gave 
to Bess, the seventeen-year-old 
daughter, the natural spontaneity 
and gentle grace that are always 
characteristic of this talented 
member of Blackfriars. Louise Buch- 
anan won the hearts of all the au- 
dience in her presentation of Bobs, 
the vigorous young barefoot boy of 
thirteen, who has no higher aim in 
life than raising chickens at home. 

After seeing this play, we know of 

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Federal Council Of 
Churches Meets 
In Atlanta 


Many Famous Speakers 
Present 


One of the great events of national | 


interest which has taken place very 
near us is the meeting of the Federal 
Council of Churches, which was held 
in Atlanta from December the third 
through the tenth. 

The purpose of this federation was 
to discuss questions of national in- 
terest both in the political and the 
religious life of the nation. The four 
great issues which were considered 
were prohibition, the Japanese ques- 
tion, war and the world league. 

Besides representatives from all of 
the churches of the United States, 
there were foreign delegates. Dr. A. 
K. Reischauer of Tokio was the of- 
ficial representative of the National 
Christian Council of Japan; Sir Wil- 
loughby Dickinson of ‘London repre- 
sented the World Alliance for Inter- 
national Friendship Through the 
Churches; Dr. H. C. Tucker of Rio de 
Janeiro, Professor Julius H, Richter 
of Berlin, Archbishop Pentleimon of 
the Eastern Orthodox Church in Je- 
rusalem and Rey. Adolph Keller of 
Zurich, Switzerland, were other for- 
eign delegates, 

Most of the sessions of the coun- 
cil were held at the Central Presby- 
terian Church with a meeting at noon 

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Davidson Glee Club At\Cast to Present the 
Agnes Scott Dec. 13 


“Music, Mirth and Melody” 


Feature Program 


The Davidson College Glee Club 
made up of thirty of the South’s best 
collegiate musicians, trained by Mrs. 
Coral H. Baker, of Charlotte, who is 
director of the Carolina Concert Com- 
pany, will breeze into Decatur, Decem- 
ber 13th, to present one of the best 
college glee club programs undertaken 
by any Southern college club. “Look 
out girls, the Wildcat Glee Club from 
old D. C. is coming.” 

Every kind of music known to man, 
including jazzy numbers, popular mu- 
sic, comical! selections, and classical 
offerings will be presented. There is 
plenty of variety in the club. The 
jazz orchestra, the two quartets, the 
chorus, and the symphony orchestra 
as well as the solos all delightfully 
arranged and intermingled, will fur- 
nish an evening of real entertainment 
and enjoyment. 

The symphony orchestra, an organi- 
zation of eleven pieces, is without a 
doubt a very unusual college orches- 
tra. Such selections as the “Anvil 
Chorus,” and other classical numbers 
will be rendered. This orchestra is 
composed of two cornets, four violins, 
a base violin, a clarinet, drums and 
piano. 

“Between halves” we have Will and 
Willhelm Kaiser, who will entertain 
with guitar and banjo, and who will 
also sing several old negro songs to 
the accompaniment of their instru- 
ments. These boys really know how 
it’s done, and are well worth hearing. 

Last year’s black faced comedian, 
Mr. A. M. Martin, is the president of 
the club this year; and he will sing a 
comical solo, entitled, “The Interrupt- 
ed Serenade.” 

Several operatic selections will be 
offered by the chorus, among which 
are: “The Joy of the Hunter,” from 
“Der Freischutz,” and “The Bandit 
Song,” from “Ernani.” 

The jazz orchestra of seven pieces 
is a “Humdinger.” Of all the jazz 
music you’ve ever heard, the music 
produced by this organization is best. 
One of the best jazz piano players 
anywhere, with two saxophones, two 
cornets, a tenor banjo, and a drum 
outfit, comprises this Wildcat jazz 
machine. 

If you want to hear some real har- 
mony, be at the auditorium December 
18th and hear the “Krazy Kracker 
Kuartet,” from Georgia. The “Krazy 
Kracker Kuartet” is composed of four 
Georgia boys, D. T. Wilson, Atlanta, 
second bass; Robt. S. Lowrance, Jr. 
Atlanta, first bass; A. M. Martin, Sa- 
vannah, second ‘tenor; and M. M. 
Lockhart, Jr., Decatur, first tenor. 
This “bunch” renders anything from 

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Miss MacDougall 
Elected to Membership 
In Ga. Acad. of Science 


Miss MacDougall Speaker At 
Meeting At Emory 


At a recent meeting of the Georgia 
Academy of Science at Emory Uni- 
versity, own Miss MacDougall 
was one of the speakers. She spoke 


on Tetraploidy, or doubling of the 
chromosomes, a subject intelligible to 
the fortunate few who are taking 
higher Biology. 

Miss MacDougall was at this time 
elected to membership in the Acad- 
emy. This is indeed a great honor 
for there can be no more than fifty 
members and Miss MacDougall is the 
only woman in the Academy. She 
is so modest that she refuses to di- 
vulge more than bare facts, but we 
congratulate her heartily and rejoice 
with her in her new honor. We know 
that she is a much greater personage 
than she will admit and see in her 
another reason that we have to be 
proud of our faculty, 


our 


“Conflict” 


At Northwestern Chosen 


Meeting of Classical 


Club Friday Night 


“Lecoppia” Latin Play 
Presented 


The Classical Club had a most in- 
teresting meeting in the Propylean 
Hall on Friday night immediately aft- 
er prayers, The program began with 
the singing of several Latin songs. 
“Lecoppia” an historical play which 
represents the first recorded instance 
of women taking part in public af- 
fairs was presented. The setting of 
the play was given by Mary Palmer 
Caldwell, and tae came the play it- 
self, 

The Lecoppia was a law which pre- 
vented women from wearing more 
than half an ounee of gold, from 
wearing colored garments, and from 
riding in chariots. The law was made 
during the second Punic War, when 
it was necessary for the state to prac- 
tice the strictest economy. In later 
years there was no real need for the 
law, but it was enforced by Cato, who 
emphatically rejected the petition for 
its repeal. The two Bruti, Marcus 
Junius and Titus Junius, stood for the 
enforcement of the law, while Valer- 
ius and Flavius desired its repeal. 

The play opens with a scene be- 
tween Valerius and Flavia his wife. 
Flavia insists. that the law be repeal- 
ed and her husband says that it is 
easier to face the displeasure of the 
Senate than the anger of his wife. 
The second scene is in the Forum 
where the women meet the senators 
and plead earnestly for the repeal of 
the law, but Cato is strongly opposed 
and after-a discctsion in the senate 
the measure for its repeal is vetoed. 
The women become infuriated and 
the next scene shows the house of the 
tribunes visited by a mob of 
threatening women. In the final is- 
sue the law is repealed and the wo- 
men triumph. 

The play was decidedly entertain- 
ing, and the actors were spirited in 
the interpretation of their roles. 
Flavia, the leader of the women, per- 
formed her part with unusual zest and 
vim. Aside from the abilities of the 

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Dr. McCain and Miss 
Hopkins In 
Memphis 
Attend Meeting of Southern 


Association of Colleges and 
Preparatory Schools 


We missed Dr. MeCain and Miss 
Hopkins from the campus and from 
chapel last week, and many of us 


wondered where they were. Conse- 


quently, we were glad to see them 
back at Agnes Scott Saturday morn- 
ing. 

They spent the week in Memphis 
attending the meeting of the South- 


ern Association of Colleges and 


Preparatory Schools. This association 


is one of the most important educa- 
tional bodies in the South, It has been 
largely instrumental in raising the 
standards of Southern Colleges and 
Preparatory Schools. As one of the 
three first class women’s colleges in 
the South, Agnes Scott is, of course, 
deeply interested in its work, and de- 
sires to give her support in every 
way possible. Dr. McCain is a mem- 
ber of some of the most important 
committees of the association, and 
in order to attend their meetings, he 
was obliged to leave early. 

Agnes Scott is glad to be connect- 
ed with the other Southern schools, 
but we are also glad to have Dr. 
MeCain and Miss Hopkins back on 
the campus, 


Wright. Ferguson, Freeman 
and Buchanan in Final 


Cast 


Blackfriars has finally decided upon 
the cast which it will send to take 
part in the national intercollegiate 
theatrical contest to be held at 
Northwestern University, from De- 
cember 30th, 1924, through January 
Ist, 1925. The cast consists of only 
four girls, and these, representing 
some of the club’s best material, will 
uphold the honor of Agnes Scott in 
Blackfriars’ first testing of her wings 
“abroad.” 

The final selection of characters 
was made last Wednesday evening 
from the three preliminary casts pre- 
viously chosen and trained by Miss 
Gooch. Individual interpretation and 
not that of the cast as a whole was 
taken into consideration; that is, the 
four best individual players and not 
the one best cast, were chosen. Miss 
Gooch asked to be present at the try- 
outs a committee of the faculty com- 
posed of Miss Alexander, Miss Laney, 
Miss McKinney, Miss Lewis, Miss 
Horn, Mr. Stukes and Mr. Johnson; . 
and, also, alumnae members of Black- 
friars living in Otlanta or Decatur, 
Miss Phythian, Miss Louise Ware, 
Miss Polly Stone, Miss Nell Buchanan, 
and Miss Frances Amis. All these 
testified their opinions by vote; but 
the final decision was left entirely 
in the hands of Miss Gooch. 

It was no easy matter to choose the 
four best from the twelve players. 
“The Conflict” having very little ac- 
tion, is a rather hard play to act, 
at best, and every one playing it, as 
well as all twelve of our girls did, 
must have fairly good dramatic 
ability. 

The cast, accompanied by Miss 
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Cincinnati Symphony 
Orchestra To Be In 
Atlanta Dec. 11 


Second Number in Concert 
Series Famous Orchestra 


An item of special interest to Agnes 
Scott girls is the announcement of 
the two concerts which will be given 
under the auspices of the Atlanta Mu- 
sic Club by the Cincinnati Sym- 
phony Orchestra the afternoon and 
evening of December 11. It is a great 
opportunity to lovers of music to have 
the advantage of hearing this great 
orchestra whose ensemble is so nearly 
flawless. 

The organization is composed of 
eighty exceedingly skilled musicians, 
and the solo instrumentalists are tal- 
ented and accomplished artists. Un- 
der the leadership of Fritz Reiner the 
orchestra has reached a top ring in 
the ladder of perfection and is said to 
be in “magnificent condition, flexible, 
co-ordinated, tonally rounded, and 
dynamically smooth. 

In the afternoon the program has 
been arranged for the children, under 
the personal supervision of Mr. Rein- - 
er and is composed almost entirely 
of numbers included in the school 
memory contest of this season, An ad- 
dition to these will be March 
Militaire of Schubert; overture 
to “William Tell,” Rossini; Barcarolle 
from “Tales of Hoffman,” Offen- 
bach; selections from the Nut Cracker 


suite, Tschaikowsky; “To a Wild 
Rose” by MacDowell, arranged for 
orchestra by Victor Herbert; and 


selections from Peer Gynt Sinte, by 
Grieg. 

The outstanding feature of the eve- 
ning program is the Cesar Franck 
Symphony which with the two con- 
cluding numbers will be given at the 
request of the officials of the Music 
Club. 

The program for the evening will 

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“T would seriously submit for undergraduates’ consideration 
the question whether from the point of view of their own ultimate 
good, there has not been a too complete disappearance, from the 
college curriculum and from college life, of compulsion and of 
requirements, rigorous, and even irksome, if you will, which 
temper the mind and test the soul of men. The great reservation 
which an anxious world feels today in regard to college men is not 
in regard to their culture or their social polish, but in regard to 
their stamina—mental, moral and spiritual! 

In consideration of this point, I would, however, urge that we 
be nice in our interpretation of the word “hardness”. It should 
not be confused with roughness or coarseness, which some seem 
to believe are necessary concomitants of strength .... The 
distinguished president of a great New England university 
has said that if he were to accept the opinions of some of his 
college friends in regard to what constitutes manhood he would be 
forced to the conclusion that “red blood” does not pass through 
the brain. Surely, it is among college men in particular that we 
ought to be able to assume exemplification of the truth that 
strength is not incompatible with intelligence and that both are 
largely enhanced in worth when combined with sweetness of 
character and gentleness of demeanor.” 


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STUDENT LIFE IN CZECHO- 
SLOVAKIA. 


“The students are in town.” And 
I began looking for the soft black 
hats, black ties and frock coats that 
some one told me characterized many 
of the men students of the Univer- 
sity in Prague. I did find a few 
flowing ties, a number of broad- 
brimmed hats set jauntily over long- 
ish hair, but I soon gave up the 
idea that they all dressed in that 
fashion. The far more usual uni- 
form, or distinguishing dress of a 
student was the one of almost uni- 
versal necessity—parts of old uni- 
forms, made as neat and presenta- 
ble as possible, but nevertheless con- 
stant reminders of the late war and 
the part that these young men had 
played in it as soldiers in a hostile 
army. If indeed the students of this 
part of the world were susceptible 
to the fads of dress that sweep our 
country from end to end, so that a 
station full of returning students, as 
I saw them at Grand Central at 
Thanksgiving, is an animated adver- 
tisement for fur coats of the same 
length, Deauville neckerchiefs, and 
properly squashed felt hats, they 
would have hard lessons fin econ- 
omy, for it is a problem to cover 
oneself at all, let alone gaudily and 
gaily. 

Yes, the students were in town, 
and within a few months of my stay 
in Ozecho-Slovakia I knew it well 
enough. The first acute awareness 
was because of the death of several 
from starvation. From that time 
on, student life at the University of 
Prague came to mean more than 
what a student does with his time 
while being a student; it meant 
something far different than his ath- 
letics, his examinations, his social 
life, his college spirit. Student life 
came to carry an apostrophe “s,” and 
the implication was how to save it. 

It must be that the spirits of Co- 
menius and Hus and other learned 
men and heroes of the little nation 


of Czecho-Slovakia still find their 
way about the old town of Prague 
and blow their living breath of de- 
sire to know into the students who 
come to this place for knowledge. 
Otherwise it is hard to believe that 
a student finds within himself the 
strength to go through with his 
courses. A few dry facts to prove 
this: 

The enrollment in the University 
of Prague is at present about 30,000. 
That number includes 5,000 students 
at the German university, about 3,- 
000 Russians and Ukrainians at the 
recently-formed free university for 
refugee students, mostly of these 
two nationalities; 3,000 are from 
Jugo-Slavia. Prague today is the 
greatest Slav student center in the 
world and almost any language can 
be heard among this group of men 
and women. It has always been a 
great university, the third oldest in 
the world, so that in the present edu- 
cational crisis among Slav nations, 
Prague has to hold her head high 
and her arms wide or thousands of 
students who are so necessary to the 
leadership of their different coun- 
tries will be with no place to con- 
tinue their work, and learning will 
stand in a fine way of being at a 
premium in all of the Slav territory. 
Classes are vastly overcrowded; a 
law student told me he was lucky 
to be able to get into a lecture room 
once a week, All of his other work 
had to be done by himself against 
looming examinations. 

Imagine studying for a difficult 
technical course at a university 
whose language you spoke imperfect- 
ly, or not at all, from a book writ- 
ten in still a third language! In 
other words, if you are a Serb or 
a Russian, you study at a Czech uni- 
versity from (most probably) a text- 
book written in German, that is, if 
by great and glorious good luck you 
are able to beg, borrow or steal a 
book at all. The greatest pleas of 
the Russian refugee students were 
for text-books and drawing materials. 


Intercollegiate 
News 


At the Thanksgiving dances, both 
formal and informal, at Washington 
all 
were distinguishable by their green 


and Lee University, freshmen 
ties and green socks which they were 
required to wear. Those not comply- 
ing with these 


not admitted to the ballrooms. 


requirements were 


As punishment for the offenders in 
the walk-out in protest against the 
suspension of the senior class presi- 
dent, twenty-three seniors have been 
of 
those who stayed away for more 


than two days, one hundred and 
eight have been suspended for the 
remainder of the term. Many others 
have been punished by curtailment of 
privilege. 


dismissed from Clemson College. 


Students at the Ohio University 
have started a new fad, painting 
Fords in all kinds of out-landish col- 
ors. Fords with stripes and polka- 
dots, yellow radiators and aluminum 
hoods, bodies decorated after the 
cubist fashion, signs bearing all sorts 
of brilliant remarks, the name of the 
machine and so on. One of these 
ears, “The Yella Spyder,” has bright- 
ly painted arms and legs all over 
it. Another, whose name is “Gal- 
loping Tarantula,” has a sign read- 
ing, “Four wheels, no breaks, go 
ahead and look, the gears are strip- 
ped.” The campus is becoming more 
and more crowded with these gaily 
decorated rattlers as time goes on. 
Each one tries to outdo the other; 
goodness knows what the next one 
will be like. Probably covered with 
clippings from “La Vie Parisienne,” 
who knows ?—Exchange. 


At their thirty-first annual con- 
vention in Savannah, the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy voted 
to establish a Cornelia Branch Stone 
scholarship at Randolph-Macon, in 
honor of Mrs. Stone, a former presi- 
dent general of the organization. 
Randolph-Macon already has one 
scholarship from the U. D. C. and 
hears of the new one with great pleas- 
ure, 


Ward Belmont has had the good 
fortune of haying two celebrities in 
its midst recently. De Pachmann, 
world famous pianist, delighted W.- 
B. students with his genius. Billy 
Sunday, noted evangelist, was speak- 
er at one of their morning services. 
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WORLD FELLOWSHIP 
COMMITTEE. 


Agnes Scott girls, who are anxi- 
ous to have their Alma Mater gain 
all possible recognition, will be deep- 
ly interested in the struggles of the 
girls’ school in Kwangju, Korea. This 
school is very anxious to be recog- 
nized as a standard high school by 
the Japanese government. Unless it 
can obtain new equipment and more 
highly trained teachers, the govern- 
ment will not give it a place with 
Japanese high schools. 

On December 14, next Sunday, the 
Southern Presbyterian Church is 
asking for a special contribution to 
this school. We want to help as much 
as we can in giving Korean girls a 
chance for Christian education, in 
gaining more recognition for a sister 
school, and in aiding that work in 
which our own Miss Winn is en- 
gaged. Although she is in another 
station, the school touches her, too. 
Let us do something next Sunday. 


DR. AND MRS. GOOD ENTER- 
TAIN AT AFTERNOON TEA 


Dr. and Mrs. Good entertained Wed- 
nesday afternoon with a tea in honor 
of Dr. Good’s advisees and some of 
the other college girls who were lucky 
enough to get an “invite.” Dr. Good 
was just the life of the party and 
kept everybody laughing all the time. 
The afternoon was spent in meeting 
new girls and hearing and telling 
“family histories.” Dr. Good cut two 
big cakes and Mrs. Good served some 
grand punch. Everybody had just 
lots and lots of fun and food and en- 
joyed the afternoon very much. 


COLLEGE 


Foremost Authority on Islam Speaks 
on “Mohammedanism as World 
Problem” 


Dr. S. M. Zwemer, 
America’s foremost authorities on 
Mohammedanism, gave a very en- 
lightening lecture on that subject in 
chapel on Saturday morning. To those 
who have looked to the newspapers 
for information concerning world 
movements and have followed the 
trend of world affairs toward conser- 
vatism as evidenced in the recent elec- 
tions in both England and the United 
States, Dr. Zwemer’s statement that 
Mohammedanism is undoubtedly one 
of the great world problems, was rath- 
er startling. Since there are so few 
followers of Mohammed in the South, 
we have not realized the menace of 
their religion to other countries where 
Islam is more prevalent. None of 
our Southern churches have sent mis- 
sionaries to these countries. 

Like Commercialism, Judaism and 
Bolshevism, Mohammedanism belongs 
to the Near East. It extends from 
Northern India to Spain, from South- 
ern Russia to Central Africa. There 
are 586,000 Mohammedans in the Phil- 
ippines, 12,000,000 in China; while five 
sixths of the population of Central 
and Western Asia, Persia, Turkey, and 
Palestine bow in homage to Allah and 
Mohammed. In India and Africa 
where Islam has the greatest hold, 
there are 69,500,000 and 59,000 Mo- 
hammedans, respectively; in Europe 
there are 17,000,000. Lastly, in North 
America, there are 11,000. Such a 
great spread of Islamism is undoubt- 
edly due to the zeal of their preach- 
ers, newspapers, missionaries, and 
propaganda. A monthly newspaper, 
“The Moslem Sunrise” is edited in 
Chicago and calls itself the one light 
shining through the darkness of Am- 
erica, 

Quite significant is the fact that 
Mohammedanism undoubtedly knits its 
followers together more closely than 
Judaism or Christianity. Islam is a 
church state and not a state church. 
Therefore it presents a political pro- 
blem. Nothing should belong to the 
state; the church should have every- 
thing. France and England are facing 
such problems in their Mohammedan 
colonies as banking, and_ slavery 
which in the eyes of Islamism is per- 
fectly justifiable. 

The greater problem, however, is 
the social problem, They would ad- 
here to strict puritanism to the point 
of letting music and art perish; yet 
they practice polygamy to an appall- 
ing degree. Mohammed was a great 
poet and warrior, but misunderstood 
the position of woman. The three 


who is one of 


he said, are: in war, in a quarrel, 
and to a woman, A Persian poet aptly 
describes the position of the Mo- 
hammedan woman: 


“Less than the dust beneath thy 
chariot wheels, 

Less than the rust that never stained 
thy sword, 

Less than the trust thou hast in me, 
my lord, 

Less than all these am I.” 


Mohammedanism appeals most to 
the uneducated classes of people. The 
more highly intelligent of them are 
abandoning it and this brings the 
great problem of Christianity. 97 per 
cent of the Mohammedans are defec- 
tives, delinquents, and dependents; 
96 per cent of the men are illiterate; 
while 99 1-3 per cent of the women 
are illiterate. Superstition prevails 
in proportion to illiteracy, and infant 
mortality in proportion to supersti- 
tion. 80 per cent of the children die 
in infancy. Mohammedanism re- 
sembles. Christianity just as a bottle 
of rose-water in a costly bottle re- 
sembles a living spring. 

Dr. Zwemer says there are very few 
missionaries in Mohammedan coun- 
tries. His talk convinced us of the 
great need for more and made us 
wish very much that we all could do 
something to help towards solving 
these problems. 


MEETING OF BLACKFRIARS 


“The Conflict” Presented 


A special meeting of Blackfriars 
was held Friday, November 28, for 
the purpose of giving the members 
a chance to hear a reading of the 
“Conflict,” the play to be given at 
Northwestern University, before it 
was presented to the college commun- 
ity. The reading of the play was 
thoroughly enjoyed by all those pres- 
ent. The cast was composed of 
Georgia Mae Little, Mary Anne Me- 
Kinney, Eloise Harris and Louise 
Buchanan. 

The “Conflict” was given for the 
college community Saturday night by 
the cast that is to play at Evanston 
during the Christmas holidays. This 
east was chosen from three prelimi- 
nary casts who practiced the play 
and tried out before Miss Gooch and 
members of the faculty and alumnae 
Wednesday night. 

All Agnes Scott is wishing the 
players success on their trip, and is 
expecting them to surpass the other 
colleges with their interpretation of 
the play and with their acting. And, 
of course, we all hope that the lucky 
ones will have a marvelous time and 
will have lots to tell us when we meet 
again after Christmas. 


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AGONISTIC 


GIDDIE GOSSIP 


Giddy—precious, angel, honey, love! , say at prayers tonight that Mary had 


Its just NINE more days till we go 
home for Christmas!! “What could be 
sweeter?”—as Margaret Hyatt would 
say. No-s-ir! Nothing could, Giddy, 
don’t you realize that I’m going to see 
mother and daddy and Jack and Paul 
and Betty and Jo and Peggy and you? 
How I'll ever live thru 27 classes be- 
fore then I don’t know. 

I guess I'll have to work off my 
energy playing basketball and doing 
my Christmas shopping—which I 
must “do early” at “our advertisers” 
as the bulletin board says. That is 
the best thing to do tho—don’t you 
think ? 

Oh—but talking about basketball 
guess what one of the seniors told 
me! Did I ever write you ’bout Liz 
Blalock? (her real name is Elizabeth 
but nobody knows it—'cept the teach- 
ers). Well she’s fire chief—I’ll ’splain 
that to you later—and now she’s 
something. The senior that told me 
about it said it (the thing she is) 
was something that everybody in the 
senior class wanted to be and that ev- 
ery year there was lots and lots of 
politicking (I didn’t understand that) 
done for the place and that it was 
very much coveted and only people 
that had excellent scholastic attain- 
ment and popularity could get it. It’s 
manager of the Senior basketball 
team. I’d thought maybe I’d be the 
freshman one but now I know I can’t 
ever—unless I get to be as smart and 
all as Liz. I think Belle Walker was 
the one that did most of it tho’. 

I’ve been restricted this week and 
couldn’t go to town to get any 
Christmas cards or anything but more 
freshmen have been going than a lit- 
tle, ’specially Mary Perkinson. And I 
think Virginia Norris must have been 
restricted too, because I heard a girl 


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been doing Virginia’s shopping for 
her—and everybody just laughed and 
laughed but I couldn’t see a thing 
funny about that, do you? I think it’s 
real sweet of Mary to do it—and I 
know Virginia does. 

Giddy, you know how I’m always 
getting my words tangled or twisted 
up—or using the wrong one? Well 
I’ve found somebody who’s as bad as 
I am. It’s Hulda McNeel. Tonight 
at prayers she was sitting right be- 
hind me and she leaned over and ask- 
ed me why more people were not in 
the chapel. I said I spec it was be- 
cause of the special turkey dinner in 
the tea room, Then Hulda asked “who 
went?” Of course, I didn’t know any 
special somebody so I said, “Oh ey- 
erybody that’s not here I guess,” 
And then she said “Dumbbell! I 
meant for you to be more pacific.” 

And then cause I laughed she near- 
ly pulled my hair out by the roots 
and you know how tender-headed I 
am. 

Not to change the subject, but did 
you know that we’re going to have a 
new gym, Giddy? Well, we are. 
They’ve got all the plans and every- 
thing—’cept enough money to put up 
a stage and install a swimming pool 
with. Wouldn’t it be nice if some nice 
real rich man—or lady—would do- 
nate enough money to do it? Why 
the pool is the very best part about it 
and I think it would be tragic if we 
didn’t have it. Maybe somebody ‘ll 
find a way to get it erected (or what- 
ever you talk about doing to a pool). 

I have a miserable test tomorrow 
and I haven’t studied but six hours for 
it and I must put at least that much 
more on it so I must stop. Tests up 
here are such momentous occasions. 

Yours till the paste board boxes 
(isn’t that cute?) 

AGGIE. 


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LECTURE ASSOCIATION BRINGS 
DR. JAMES T. SHOTWELL 
TO AGNES SCOTT. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


the above list of honors, we may cite 
“Who’s Who” for a much longer and 
more impressive array of titles un- 
der the name of James Thomas Shot- 
well. 


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Alumnae News 


The Agnes Seott Alumnae have 
taken as their motto and slogan, “A 
bigger and better reunion than ever 
before!” At commencement this year 
the classes of ’95, 1900, ’05, 710, 715, 
20, ’22, '24 will hold reunions, More 
elaborate plans are being made for 
this year than ever before. First there 
will be a big parade, each class having 
a special costume, Stunts and lunch- 
eons have been planned and _ the 
alumnae will have tables in the din- 
ing room. At this time, the class at 
large, those who attended but did not 
graduate from Agnes Scott, will or- 
ganize and hereafter will hold a re- 
union. I think this reunion will be 
of as much interest to the students as 
to the alumnae. 

Lillian McAlpine, class of ’28, is 
teaching at Salem College, Winston- 
Salem, North Carolina. 

Frances Myers is teaching Latin in 
Japan. 

Josephine Logan, ’23, after a year 
with her family in Japan is coming to 
Richmond Va., this fall to attend the 
General Assembly’s Training School. 


Julia Hagood Cuthbertson’s (Mrs. 
Reynolds) new house is completed and 
she is enjoying it thoroughly. It is 
Dutch Colonial, next door to her 
mother, and to Coma (Burgess) Clark- 
ston, ’22. 

Then we have this news from way 
back in ’99. Bernice Chivers Smith 
(Mrs. Chas. B.) writes that her daugh- 
ter is to enter Agnes Scott. She hasa 
son at the University of Georgia. 


MR. WANNAMAKER 
LECTURES ON ITALY 


One of the most appreciated speak- 
ers brought to us by the Lecture As- 
sociation is Professor Wannamaker, 
and his stirring address will be re- 
membered for a long while as a true 
link in the chain of understanding 
which is being forged between the 
United States and Italy. Last year 
Agnes Scott was delighted with an 
address by an Italian Princess. Now 
we have had opportunity for further 
knowledge of Italy from the Ameri- 
can point of view; for Mr. Wanna- 
maker is in truth the interpreter of 
Italy to America. He is the author of 
a recently published volume, “With 
Italy in Her Final War of Libera- 
tion,” a work uniformly praised by 
both American and Italian reviewers. 

To anyone who heard his lecture, the 
result could not but be inspiring. His 
first-hand knowledge and sympathetic 
insight make his words ring with con- 
viction of the real spirit of struggling 
Italy. 


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SILHOUETTE GROUP 
PICTURES FOR SALE 


For sale! Pictures for sale! The 
pictures for which you have been 
waiting so long are on the bulletin 
board in Main Building. Whether they 
are the scenes from Midsummer 
Night’s Dream, or the sophomore and 
the freshman stunts, or the Cotillion 
dance, or the Day Students’ Musical 
Comedy, they are all ready. If you 
were not in any of these plays or 
stunts, mother and father would be 
interested in your friends, and if you 
were lucky enough to have your pic- 
ture taken at one of these times, then 
years from now you would find a 
great deal of amusement in looking 
at these pictures, and wondering if 
you ever looked liked that. 

Now, there are really two good rea- 
sons why you should buy these pic- 
tures: First, for your own interest, 
and second, for the interest of the 
Silhouette. It means a great deal to 
the Annual, in a financial way, to 
have these pictures bought. They are 
rather large, and each one for the 
moderate sum of—well just stop by the 
bulletin board in Main, and find out 
for yourself. You will be so amazed 
that you will immediately sign your 
name and room number for “imme- 
diate delivery.” Girls, where is that 
spirit that prevails on Tuesday nights 
when we sing “Agnes Scott is the spot 
that we all adore?” 


CHANGE IN DATE OF 
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS 


The faculty has recently granted a 
petition of the students that the dates 
of the Christmas holidays shall be 
changed from Wednesday, December 
17th, through Thursday, January 1st, 
to Thursday, December the 18th, 
through Friday, January the 2nd. The 
students desired this change so that 
it would not be necessary for them to 
leave home on New Year’s day, in 
order to be back for classes on Jan- 
uary 2nd. 

The president of Student Govern- 
ment explained to the student-body 
that, as no standard college can allow 
more than fifteen days for Christmas 
vacation, and as it is against the pol- 
icy of Agnes Scott to set vacation 
dates so that students will be obliged 
to travel on Sunday, there could be 
no change in the holidays unless it 
be for vacation to begin on Thursday, 
December 18th, and end on January 
2nd, instead of beginning on Wednes- 
day, the 17th and ending on January 
1st. She further stated that the fac- 
ulty was willing to make this change 
in the holidays in case it should be 
the wish of the majority of students. 
By means of a standing vote, it was 
decided that the holidays should be- 
gin on Thursday, December 18th. The 
petition was then posted in Main, to 
be signed by the students, and pre- 
sented to the faculty. There is, how- 
ever, one condition attached to this 
change in holidays: That every girl 
be on her honor to report for classes 
on Saturday morning, January the 
3rd, and not Monday morning or any 
other time, unless she be providential- 
ly hindered. 


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price! 


Economy — however fine 
the quality! 


YW GOS, 


Last Sunday night, Miss Colton, 
who was a teacher at Agnes Scott 
thirteen years ago and is now con- 
ducting a school in Korea, told us 
about the work at her school and 
gave us an excellent picture of con- 
ditions in Korea now. 

First of all, she explained why the 
Koreans cannot expected to love the 
Japanese, although the Japanese have 


given them railroads and other such 
improyements: With Germany as 
their model, the Japanese forced their 
way into Korea and are now domi- 
neering the Koreans and the re- 
sources of the country, which are 
promoted to the profit of the Jap- 
anese alone. 

Korea is a beautiful country with 
its innumerable hills in which clus- 
ter group after group of tiny vil- 
lages, never one house alone, for they 
are banded together for protection 
against the Japanese. It is very 
hard to teach in these villages be- 
cause, for one thing, there are so 
few teachers. The missionary is seen 
about once a year in each town and 
his helper is seen rarely more than 
twice. When they are away, there 
is no one to lead the meeting except, 
perhaps, some old man who can read 
or rather drone out a few verses 
from the Bible. This, however, is not 
interesting to the young people, who 
want to hear something new. Girls 
from Miss Colton’s school go out as 
teachers when they graduate; the 
members of a Bible class for boys 
also accomplish a great deal in this 
line. It is the trained native who is 
needed rather than the foreign mis- 
sionary. 

Another disadvantage in teaching 
is caused by the lack of a decent 
building in which to teach. The 
church is usually a one-room house, 
with no windows; in cold weather the 
door is kept tightly closed and this 
causes the leader a great deal of dis- 
comfort. The room is heated by pine 
boughs under the floor; these fill the 
air with smoke. Squabbles often 
arise and interrupt the meeting; the 
Koreans leave their shoes at the door 
and, as they have to go out very 
often, frequently get them mixed up; 
the neighbors gather and find out 
the cause of the quarrel and the dis- 
tracted teacher has hard work get- 
ting his congregation back to order. 
Whenever another woman enters, she 
is greeted fervently and vociferously; 
she often walks right up to the 
teacher and bids her a good eve- 
ning—all this while the teacher is 
trying to talk, 

The Koreans are eager to learn 
but they have a hard time keeping 
their minds on one subject for any 
length of time. 

‘Last year, Miss Colton’s - girls 
fasted forty-two times so that their 
tiny bowls of rice might be sold to 
further the work of the school. These 
girls do all their own sewing, wash- 
ing and ironing. Besides this, they 
must sew to support the girls who 
are too young to support themselves. 
Yet, in the land of plenty, Miss Col- 
ton can find no one who is interested 
in giving her school a furnace which 
is badly needed at present. 

Her talk ended with a plea for aid 
from the Agnes Scott girls. She 
showed a number of interesting pic- 
tures to the girls after her talk and 
said that she felt sure that they 
would be interested in her school. 


MEETING OF PI ALPHA PHI 


Pi Alpha Phi met Thursday night, 
December 4, The debate was on the 
subject: “Resolved, That the short 
ballot should be adopted in the Unit- 
ed States for the election of public 
officials.” The affirmative was up- 
held by Eloise Harris and Ellen Wal- 
ker; the negative by Mildred Pitner 
and Elsa Jacobsen. The decision was 
unanimous in favor of the affirma- 
tive. The judges were Miss Jackson, 
Miss Cole and Miss Brown. 

The next debate will be held on 
December the tenth and the subject 
will be the one chosen for the inter- 
collegiate debate: “Resolved, That 
the Johnson Immigration Bill would 
be for the best interests of the Unit- 
ed States.” This will be the last de- 
bate to be held before the Christ- 
mas holidays. 


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AGONIS TIC 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


She: “Stop!” 

He: “I won't.” 

She (with a sigh of relief): 
right, I’ve done my duty.” 


“All 


“Is there an opening for bright 
young engineers here?” 
“Yes; please close it as you go 


out.” 


“Where ya been?” 
“In a fraternity 


First burglar: 
Second burglar: 
house.” 


First burglar: “Lose anything?” 


Beauty is only skin deep, but who 
wants to skin a pretty girl? 


Broadmindedness is the ability to 
smile when another fellow pets the 
girl you brought to the party. 


“Jack was held up on his way home 
last night.” 

“Yeh, that’s the only way he could 
have gotten home.” 


It is better to have loved a short 
man than never to have loved a tall. 


Bill: “Remember when we first 
met in the revolving door at the post- 
office?” 


Mary: “But that wasn’t the first 
time we met.” 
Bill: “No, but that was when we 


began going around together.” 


Speaking of dwarfs—the man who 
went to sleep on his watch isn’t so big 
either. 


Cop: “What’s the trouble? <A 
fight?” 
Bothered drunk: “Just a bout.” 


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FEDERAL COUNCIL OF 
CHURCHES MEETS IN 
ATLANTA. 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


and at 8 o’clock at night. An evan- 
gelistic meeting was held every day 
at 12:15 o’clock in the Forsyth The- 
ater for business men and women. 
ad 
DAY STUDENTS PRESENT MUSI- 

CAL COMEDY AT EGLESTON 

HALL. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


thor and the director of the play. 
At the end of the comedy, the call for 
“Author” was made, and Mary, look- 
ing as charming as ever, appeared 
for an all too brief moment on the 
stage. 

The day students are greatly en- 
couraged by the proceeds from the 
comedy, for the hall was filled with 
many enthusiastic and interested on- 
lookers. 


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Two passengers were leaning over 
the rail of a ship, one a poet, and 
the other a man suffering the keen 
anguish of mal-de-mer. The poet ex- 
tended his arm in the general direc- 
tion of the horizon and said with feel- 
ing, “Oh, how I love the sea, my heart 
is out there with the waves.” 

The sick man looked around and 
murmured weakly: “Brother, I’m 
sorry for you. You’ve gone me one 
better.” 


Black Magic. 

Ancient: “Young people don’t 
burn the midnight oi] over their work 
as we old-timers did.” 

Recent: “No, grandpa, times have 
changed. Nowadays we get along 
faster in the dark.” 


Dumb Dora is thankful this week 
that: 

The Gold Dust Twins are still mop- 
ping up the dirt. 

The eversharp pencil 
dull. 

The glue is still sticking around as 
usual, 


never gets 


Optimism. 


letters through and 


“T read her 
through, 

And wonder if she believes, 

That I take them all to be true, 


If so she sadly is deceived.” 


“You see she says she doesn’t care, 
But that doesn’t make me feel blue, 
It is not more than I can bear, 
Because I don’t believe it’s true.” 


Football player: “Wake up, Charlie; 
how’d you sleep?” 

Visiting teammate: “Why did you 
ever put me in a four-poster bed. I’ve 
been trying to make touchdowns all 
night.” 

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MEETING OF CLASSICAL 
CLUB FRIDAY NIGHT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


actors and the inherent qualities of 
the thing itself the play was interest- 
ing for it presented the first recorded 
attempt of women to obtain their 


rights in the legal world. 
The Cast. 
Cito (aiencace acme ary, Riviere 
Marcus Junius Brutus -..-.-. Lillian Le- 
Conte. 

Titus Junius Brutus -..-- Ann Choate. 
Fundanius .................. Irene Lowrance. 
Valerius 2s Mary Agnes Gill. 
Flavia .....:... _Evangeline Papageorge. 
ARPES nae Mary Crenshaw. 
Claudia _..Mary Sayward. 
Fundania .........-...-.. Louise Sherfasee. 
BY keene a eee! Edith Brown. 


Petition to Cato for repeal of law 
presented by Frances Graighead. 


—Rich’s, Third Floor 


BROS. CO. 


DAVIDSON GLEE CLUB AT 


AGNES SCOTT, DECEMBER 13 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” to 
“The Skunk,” and when the K K K’s 
get into action the night of the 13th, 
the air will be filled with harmonious 
sounds. 

The personnel of the Davidson Glee 
Club is as follows: 

Chorus. 

First tenors: McClain, L. B.; Lock- 
hart, M. M., Jr.; MeCravy, J. S., Jr.; 
Gray, J. S.; Crayton, B. T.; Hudson, 
T. R.; Singletary, J. E.; Brown, H. D. 

Second tenors: Wilson, R. E.; Mc- 
Rae, J. S.; Russell, W. K.; Grady, F.; 
Hamilton, T. H.; Allison, W. H.; 
Douglas, E. L.; Howard, D. H., Jr. 

First bass: Lowrance, R. S., Jr.; 
Davis, M. C.; Foster, J. S.; Earnest, J. 
R.; Martin, A. M.; Johnson, R. L. 

Second bass: Thompson, J. P.; 
Titts, E. M.; Wilson D. G.; Earnest, B. 
F.; Barr, T. ¢. 

Blackface songsters: 
and their instruments. 

Symphony Orchestra. 

J. R. Earnest, director; L. B. Mc- 
Clain; J. R. MeCravy, Jr.; J. S. Gray; 
J. S. McRae; T. H. Hamilton; R. S. 
Lowrance, Jr.; M. C. Davis; T. C. 
Barr; R. B, McConnell; W. W. Purdy. 

Jazz Orchestra 

B. T. Crayton, leader; J. S. Me- 
Cravy, Jr.; W. K. Russell; F. Grady; 
M. CG. Davis; J. R. Earnest; R. B. Mc- 
Connell. 
Director—Mrs. 

Charlotte. 
President—Arthur M. Martin. 
Manager—James T. Milhous. 
Assistant managers—W. H. Branch, 

A. S. Robinson, Q. S. Broyles. 
Accompanist—Wallace W. Purdy. 
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“THE CONFLICT” PRESENTED 
BEFORE COLLEGE COMMUNITY. 

(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


Kiser twins 


Coral H. Baker, of 


no reason why Agnes Scott should 
not be as successful in this intercol- 
legiate activity as she has been in 
that of debating, and we feel sure 
that these representatives will make 
a favorable appearance in the con- 
test at Northwestern University. 
The cast is as follows: 
Emelie, the elder duaghter of 
the house, who has already tested 
her wings in a first flight—Isabel 
Ferguson. 
Bess, seventeen, just beginning 


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Athletic 


The Varsity Hockey Team had its 
line-up read out in chapel and from 
that moment on the members have 
been receiving due congratulations. 
Nevertheless such notoriety is small, 
yes, even minute compared with that 
which is to follow. 

The Athletic Board is planning to 
send the names of these able play- 
ers to Bryn Mawr to be published 
in the “Sportswoman,” a magazine 
which is the official athletic publi- 
cation of the Northern Women’s Col- 
leges. It is also contemplating a 
write-up of the Faculty-Student game 
as a suitable accompaniment to the 
all-star line-up. We may not have 
intercollegiate athletics, but that does 
not bar recognition along this line. 

This year’s varsity is a team 
worthy of praise. It is powerful and 
it is fleet. Each member uses splen- 
did team work and plays for the 
group rather than for self. The line- 
u pis composed of four Seniors, four 
Juniors, two Sophomores and one 


be aware of the outside world—Mary 
Freeman. 

Bobs, thirteen, a vigorous young 
animal with no wings to speak of as 
yet—Louise Buchanan. 

Mother, guardian of the nest and 
very jealous of the world, where her 


brood is concerned — Mary Ben 
Wright. 
Seene: The sitting room of an 


old-fashioned farm house. 
Time: Late afternoon of an April 
day. 


CINCINNATI SYMPHONY 
ORCHESTRA TO BE IN 


ATLANTA, DECEMBER 11 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


include: The overture to “Der Freis- 
chutz,” by Weber and the great D 
Minor Symphony of Cesar Franck—a 
monumental work in symphonic writ- 
ing which has been played in Atlan- 
ta only once before—makes up the 
first half. The second half of the 
program arranged by Perey Graing- 
er is composed of a light and exceed- 
ingly attractive group and includes 
“Molly on the Shore,” Irish Tune 


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Freshman. This is the first time in 
all our college history that a girl 
has made the all-star team during 
her Freshman year. Naturally every- 
one is proud to know Gwendolyn, 
The line-up as it will appear in 
the “Sportswoman” is: 
Center Forward —......... Mary Keesler 
Right Inside —.....-.... Margaret Bull 
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Right Wing ...... Josephine Scheussler 
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Center Half .. Sterling Johnson 


Right Half Evelyn Powell 
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Right Full .......Mary Ann McKinney 
Bett Fall... Gwendolyn McKinnon 
Samco Leone Bowers 


Basketball practice has now begun 
in earnest. The first game will be 
played by the Juniors and Seniors 
the Friday before we leave for the 
holidays. Everyone come out. You 
may make a team! 


from Country Derry, and “Shepherd’s 
Hey;” then follows three Wagner 
numbers: March from “Tannhaus- 
er,” “Ride of the Valkyries,” and the 
“Dance of the Apprentices,’ from 
“Die Meistersinger.” 


CAST TO PRESENT 
“THE CONFLICT” AT 
NORTHWESTERN CHOSEN 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


Gooch, will leave for Chicago during 
the last part of the Christmas vaca- 
tion. Needless to say, “our hearts, 
our hopes, our prayers” are all with 
them. 
Cast. 
Mother: <2 soak Mary Ben Wright. 
Elder daughter —.......... Isabel Ferguson 
Younger daughter ........ Mary Freeman. 
Twelve year-old-boy ...... Louise Buch- 
anan. 
Alternates, 

Mother .........-.... Georgia Mae Little. 
Elder daughter Mary Anne McKinney. 


Younger daughter ................ Elizabeth 
Cheatham. 

Twelve year-old-boy ................ Frances 
Freeborn. 

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hosiery! Clear chiffons and fashionable 
mediumweights. Stop at the hosiery 
cases today—here’s a revelation of value 
and excellence that delights every femi- 
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1924 


Campaign For 


Mr. Wanamaker|Seniors of Atlanta 


Lectures On Italy 


Addresses Agnes Scott On “The 
Italy of Today” 


One of the most pleasing lecturers 
that the Lecture Association has en- 
gaged this year was Mr. Wana- 
maker who lectured in the college 
chapel Tuesday on “The Italy of To- 
day.’ Mr. Wanamaker has a pleas- 
ing personality; his lecture was per- 
meated with humor; and he showed 
that he was a master of the sub- 
ject. 

It is necessary, Mr. Wannamaker 
said, to review Italy’s history of the 
past hundred years in order to under- 
stand the Europe of today. The his- 
tory of the [Italian ‘Resurrection,” 
1820-1870, when Italy freed herself 
from the tyranny of the degraded 
house of Hapsburg, was given most 
entertainingly. The 
challenged to point to any country 
which had produced three contem- 
poraries greater than the idealist 
Mazzini; the warrior Garibaldi, and 
the statesman Gabour, who were the 
shining lights in Italy’s fight for In- 
dependence, 

Our respect for Italians was aroused 
when Mr. Wanamaker made us fa- 
miliar with the long struggle for in- 
dependence after centuries of oppres- 
sion, which the Italians underwent. 
He also showed us what a heroic part 
Italy played in the recent war, when 
she fought under such odds, that even 
generals like Foch doubted if she 
could hold her own. We understood 
the disappointment of the Italians at 
the close of the World war, when he 


pointed out that both France and Eng- 
land, which were already glutted with 
colonies, took all that the enemy was 
forced to relinquish, and allowed noth- 
ing to Italy, which is sorely in need 
of them as a source of raw materials. 
This despair was so great that the 
majority of Italian workers were will- 
ing to listen to the radical socialists, 
and a revolution was constantly ex- 
pected. The factories were taken over 
by the workers, who, unfortunately, 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Faculty Give Christmas 
Dinner Tuesday Night 


audience was 


Christmas Decorations Add To 
the Holiday Spirit 


Sh-h-h! The cat is out of the bag. 
It was supposed to be kept a secret, 
until the very night, but since some 
one has disclosed the dark secret, the 
faculty has decided that it is just as 
well. Here is what is in store for the 
students—a Christmas supper—to be 
given by the college on Tuesday night, 
the sixteenth. 

In the past it has been kept a secret. 
The transoms were covered, the doors 
were locked and the shades were pull- 
ed down to exclude the eyes and ears 
of all curious passersby. 

It has always been a gala occasion. 
The dining rooms are beautifully dec- 
orated in a true Christmas spirit and 
the songs that are sung by the stud- 
ents to the faculty, and by the fac- 
ulty to the students add to the gay 
enthusiasm of the celebration. 

All the old girls realize what fun 
is in store for them, and the new 
girls are waiting in eager anticipation 
for our Christmas dinner. 


Girls’ High Schools 
Entertained By 
Smith Alumnae 


“Joint Owners In Spain” 
Presentéd For Them 


e 

The Smith Ccellege Alumnae of At- 
lanta entertained the senior girls of 
the Atlanta High Schools at Agnes 
Scott last Saturday, December the 
6th. The purpose of the Smith Club 
was to stimulate interest in going to 
college among this year’s high school 
girl graduates. Agnes Scott was chosen 
as the place for entertainment so as 
to give a glimpze into actual college 
life. The girls and the Alumnae, 
upon reaching the college, came to 
the chapel, where Blackfriars pre- 
sented a program for their enjoy- 
Miss Florence Perkins. gave 


ment. 
two delightful readings, and Misses 
Ellen Walker, Roberta Winter, Poca- 
hontas Wight, and Louisa Duls play- 
ed “Joint Owners in Spain,” which 
had been presented before the col- 
lege community the week before. 
After the play, the president of the 
Smith Club read answers which had 
been given to the question, “Why 
did you go to Smith?” The hostesses 
and their guests then repaired to the 
gymnasuim for refreshments. As 
each girl entered the door, she was 
given a slip of paper bearing a num- 
ber. Three of these numbers were 
“lucky” and appropriate prizes were 
awarded to the ones receiving those 
numbers. The refreshments consist- 
ed of delicious ice cream, cake, and 
peanuts in favor baskets and an 
abundance of it all, too. 

Miss Louise Hale, of Agnes Scott 
and a graduate of Smith, sponsored 
the entertainment at Agnes Scott. 


“The Conflict” To Be 
Given At Egleston Hall 


“Columbine” Will Also Be Given 


Tuesday “Blackfriars” will present 
“The Conflict” at Egleston Hall in 
Atlanta. ‘The renown of this play 
and of Agnes Scott’s coming partici- 
pation in the contest at Northwestern 
University has gone abroad. Atlanta 
high school pupils are anxious to see 
the play and the nature of the presen- 
tation and have invited the cast to 
appear at Egleston Hall. At the 
same time, Eloise Harris and Polly 
Stone will give a short, merry skit 
entitled, “Columbine,” by Colin Clem- 
ents. We hope that the Atlanta boys 
and girls will be so charmed that they 
will come to all future entertain- 
ments given by our dramatic club. 

The cast of “Conflict” is as an- 
nounced: 

Emelie—The elder daughter of the 
house, who has already tested her 
wings in a first flight-—Isabel Fer- 
guson, 

Bess—Seventeen — just beginning 
to be aware of the outside world— 
Mary Freeman. 

Bobs—Thirteen—a vigorous young 
animal with no wings to speak of as 
yet—Louise Buchanan. 

Mother—Guardian of the nest, and 
very jealous of the world—where her 
brood is concerned. — Mary ‘Ben 
Wright. 


A crisis has arisen in the history 
of Agnes Scott. The all-important 
question is: To swim or not to swim? 
In other words work has been start- 
ed on the long-needed gymnasium, but 
funds are lacking for the completion 
of the swimming pool and the audi- 
torium. 

The matter was presented to the 
students Saturday morning at chapel. 
Miss Randolph explained the situation 
which we are facing. When bids were 
made for the contract to build the new 
gymnaisum, the lowest bid was a good 
deal higher than was expected and 
also much more than the funds ayvail- 
able for the new building. The build- 
ing itself could be erected, but cer- 
tain features would have to be omit- 
ted, the most important of which were 
the swimming pool and the stage for 
the auditorium. These were the two 
things that the students had most de- 
sired in the new gymnasium. 

The money needed for these two 
features can be obtained if the stud- 
ents and faculty raise one-third of 
the amount needed. $5,000 for the 
swimming pool and $2,500 for the au- 


ditorium, cr a total of $7,500, must be’ 


gotten together by the students. For 
every dollar raised two more dollars 
can be obtained from other sources, 
Dr. MeCain, promises. It is not an 
easy thing to raise money unless ev- 
erybody helps, but if the Hottentots 
are 100 per cent behind the move- 
ment, they will come out victorious. 
The students are not setting a prece- 
dent in launching this campaign to 
raise money for their Alma Mater, as 
we learned from Miss Daisy Frances 
Smith in her short talk on “The Re- 
lation of the New Gymnasium to a 
Greater Agnes Scott.” Way back in 


1889, when Agnes Scott was first’! 


started the small beginning did not 
indicate the wonderful future of the 
school. When Agnes Scott had only 
sixty-three students (three of whom 
were boarders), Colonel Scott had a 
vision of the future and made possible 
the building of Agnes Scott Hall, 
which was one of the best buildings 
of its kind in those days. Conditions 
did not justify Colonel Scott’s faith, 
but look at the Agnes Scott of today! 
A college, however, is not a paying 
investment, and, in spite of everything 
that could be done, there was a yearly 
deficit, In 1919 it was clearly realized 
that Agnes Scott must have endow- 
ment. At that time $25,000 was 
raised by the students and faculty. 
We, too, are loyal to our Alma Mater; 
it is by no means impossible to do 
what has been done before. We get 
out of anything what we put into it. 
If we give love and service to Agnes 
Scott, we get in return a warm feel- 
ing of possession and pride. In put- 
ting this campaign across we shall 
prove our love to our college, for we 
will be giving of ourselves for her 
future. 

Louise Buchanan brought us down 
to hard tacks about the matter. Shall 
we have a pool room at Agnes Scott 
that has no swimming pool? That 
would be quite a laughable situation 
—not to mention the disadvantages. 
College spirit demands that we have 
a swimming pool in our pool room. 
We sing, “We're All for Agnes Scott,” 
and we’re all for an Agnes Scott 
swimming pool, too. In 1776 our fore- 
fathers fought for freedom and inde- 
pendence because they felt the urge to 
benefit mankind. A definite crisis 
has arisen and we too must feel the 
urge to benefit the Agnes Scott stud- 
ents who are to come. What 
is our relation to our college? What 
do we mean when we sing, “May thy 
strength and thy power ne’er de- 
cline”? 

We all love Agnes Scott, but, as 
Miss Nell Buchanan said, it is not a 
thing that we talk about. Our college 
ever beckons us on to love and loyal- 
ty, but love is not true and real if it 
is not backed up by something tangi- 
ble. As far as actual money goes, we 
are indebted to our college; for she 
has paid for a good part of our educa- 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 4) 


No. 13 


New Gymnasium 


Mr. Frank Inman Noted|Davidson Glee Club 


Member of Board 
of Trustees 


Successful Financier For 
the College 


Mr. Frank Martin Inman has been 
a member of our board of trustees 
ten years. He succeeded to the place 
which his father held on the board 
and was immediately elected vice- 
chairman of the trustees. He has 
also served as chairman of the fi- 
nance committee, which is one of the 
most important in connection with 
the institution. When he became 
chairman, the college was $63,000 in 
debt and its endowment was $150,000. 
During the ten year period of Mr. In- 
man’s trusteeship, the college has 
got clear of debt, and the endowment 
has been increased to the amount of 
$850,000. He is also largely respon- 
sible for the selection of each invest- 
ment. Bankers and other financiers 
say that we have the best selection 
of bonds of almost any college in the 
country. Mr, Inman is very regular 
in attendance on the board and is 
carrying on finely the excellent work 
done by his father. 

Mr. Inman was born in Atlanta on 
May 5, 1861, and is the son of Samuel 
M. and Jennie Dick Inman. 
Lamar Knight, in his “History of 
Georgia and Georgians,” records Mr. 
Samuel Inman as one of the stable, 
substantial and honored men of At- 
lanta, and his son, Mr. Frank Inman, 


Lucian 


Gives Program At 
Agnes Scott 


“Mirth, Musie, and Melody” 
Feature Program 


The Davidson College Glee Club, 
“The South’s most popular singers,” 
trained by Mrs. Goral H. Baker, of 
Charlotte, N, C., presented a most en- 
joyable program of “music, melody 
and mirth” at Agnes Scott, December 
13th. 


The program was unusually inter- 
esting because of the abundance of 
classical selections and old favorite 
numbers; but enough popular pieces, 
comical selections, and jazz were in- 
termingled to give plenty of variety. 
The choral work was excellent, espec- 
ially the shading of voices. The sym- 
phony orchestra, composed of eleven 


pieces, was one of the best features 
of the program and 
much skillful harmony such pieces as 
“Anvil Chorus” and “Love and Roses.” 
The seven-pieced jazz orchestra made 
the audience “sit up and take notice,” 
while tapping an involuntary accom- 
paniment on the floor. 
of the club, such as the vocal solos, 
violin solos, 
quartets also furnished the audience 
real enjoyment. 


rendered with 


Other features 


“Colored Music,” and 


The program was as follows: 


Part One. 
Prelude 
1 


“The Joy of the Hunter”’—Verdi. 
“Lamp in the West”—Parker. 
“The Interrupted Serenade”—Stair. 


as inher ting many of the father’s 
characteristics and showing  citizen- 


shtp equally as:valuable. He has been 
made his father’s successor in large 
business corporations as well as havy- 
ing sueceeded him in positions of pub- 
lic confidence, 

Mr. Frank Inman received his early 
education at Boys’ High School in At- 
lanta and graduated at the University 
of Virginia in 1895. His first entrance 
into business was in the cotton trade, 
where he achieved great success, and 
became the head of the Atlanta firm 
of Inman, Aker, and Inman, which 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 1) 


Glee Club Gives 
Recital Wed. Night 


Final Program of the Semester 


The final Glee Club Recital of the 
semester was given last Wednesday 
evening in Propylean Hall, and it was 
one of the most delightful of the fall 
programs. 
sored by the club and have been given 
weekly since the opening of school. 
As a result of the splendid training 
of Mr. Johnson, they have been mark- 
ed successes, each better than the 
preceding one—if this could be pos- 
sible—and the recital of last week 
was a delightful climax. 

Besides the members of the Glee 


These recitals are spon- 


Club who took part in the program, 
several young men from Atlanta were 
invited to assist at the recital, They 
were: Messrs. Walter Herbert, bari- 
tone; Vaughn Ozmer, tenor; Jack Rut- 
land, tenor, and Leon Weeks, baritone. 
Their singing was one of the most 
enjoyable features of the evening. 

The members of the Glee Club who 
sang were: Sopranos, Ruth Drane, 
Martha Johnston, Grace Etheridge, 
Mary Riviere, Virginia Miller, Edith 
Strickland, Vera Hickman, and Helen 
Bates; contraltos, Mabel Daniels, Ger- 
trude Henry, Hazel Huff, and Ruth 
Thomas. 


(Solo by A. M. Martin.) 
By the chorus, 


2. 
A Festival in Popular Songs— 
(Tenor and Piano Solos) 
Mr. R. E. Wilson, accompanied by Mr. 
W. K. Russell. 


3 
“Sentry”—Haskins 
“Tannhauser March”’—Wagner. 

Symphony Orchestra. 


4. 

Quartet Selections—Wildeat Four— 
L. B. McClain, R. E. Wilson, J. S. 
Foster, E. M. Fitts. 

5. 

Violin Solo—J. S. McRae. 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) 


North Carolina 
Club Holds Meeting 


Asheville Girls Entertain 


The North Carolina Club was de- 
lightfully entertained on Friday eve~- 
ning, December 5, in Propylean Hall, 
by the girls of Asheville, North Caro- 
lina. It was an evening of fun, the 
gathering being in no sense of the 
word a business meeting. Games 
indicative of a relapse to childhood 
were played in all glee, and riddles 
and conundrums were asked. 

The presence of Miss MacDougall 
for the first time at a North Caro- 
lina Club meeting, added much to 
the enjoyment of the party. Miss 
MacDougall’s home was originally in 
Laurenberg, North Carolina, so there 
is quite a tie to help bring about 
the hope of the club members that 
Miss MaéDougall will be a frequent 
guest of the club. 

Favors, concealing solemn for- 
tunes; poppers, developing into hats; 
and refreshments were passed 
around. The fortunes were read 
aloud, and the outcome of the inter- 
esting prophecies will be watched 
with amusement, and a little suspi- 
cion, 


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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 Carolyn Essig, ’28 
Clyde Passmore, ’25 Julia Pope, ’25 
Emily Ehrlich, ’27 Miriam Preston, ’27 
Janet McDonald, ’25 Martha Turner, ’28 
Emily Kingsberry, 28 Edith Richards, ’27 
Nellie Richardson, ’26 Emily Stead, ’27 


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“Tt came upon the midnight clear 
That glorious song of old.” 


The Christmas season, the glad and happy season, is here 
again. In a few days we will be leaving Agnes Scott for home 
whether it be far away where we will find snow and ice or South 
where we will find flowers blooming, we are going home for 
Christmas. It is the happy time of the year, the time of giving. 
Have you ever noticed how happy the people look on the streets? 
They seem to love the crowds and the push and jam. It is the 
spirit of Christmas, happiness. But it is a specially happy time 
for college students because it brings a holiday, a time for fun 
after three months of work. We have heard much of the C. S. 
on the campus, for it is a wonderfully contagious thing, this 
Christmas spirit. So as the trunks are packed and the “good- 
byes” said the Agonistic wishes to each and every member of the 
college community a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New 
Year. 


STUDENT CAMPAIGN FOR THE GYMNASIUM. 


The ideal of every student at Agnes Scott, for numbers of 
years, has been to have a new, modern gymnasium. This fall the 
gymnasium building was assured to Agnes Scott and work has 
been begun. The building is to be one of the best equipped 
gymnasiums in the South. But when the bids were in, it was 
discovered that the necessary money to complete the swimming 
pool and the stage was lacking. So the students have been asked 
to raise seven thousand five hundred dollars in order that the 
swimming pool and the stage will be completed at the same time 
and ready for use by next September. 


Have you ever realized how much more you love and value a 
thing if you have worked for it? It is specially true in college, 
the things you work hardest for are the things you will love the 
most. The gymnasium will be one of the most valuable things 
we could have on the campus. It will give pleasure and profit 
not only to those who are here now but to all the girls who will 
be future Agnes Scott students. Won’t you help Agnes Scott who 
has done so much for you to finish the gymnasium by helping 
to build the swimming pool and stage? Each girl is asked to 
pledge as much as she can to this fund, the pledges to be in by 
January, 1926. Agnes Scott students have always and do love their 
Alma Mater and we know that we will not fail her now. Won't 
you do your part? 


A FREE SPEECH COLUMN. 


The Agonistic wishes to try something new during the second 
semester and to do it we need the co-operation of every student. 
This new thing is a “Free Speech Column.” Any member of the 
college community who has any suggestion or criticism is asked 
to write it to be published in the Agonistic. The articles are to 
be signed with the name of the writer and her class but if it is 
desired the name will be withheld. 


In order that there will be no misunderstanding we want to 
explain the purpose of this column. We believe that many girls 
on the campus have seen little things that would improve the col- 
lege; it may be the campus or it may be some organization on 
the campus, or some new suggestion that would be valuable. We 
believe that many of you have these ideas and we are asking for 
constructive criticism and any suggestions you may have to im- 
prove any organization or activity on the campus. We do not 
want anything like scandal or personal prejudices. 


This has been tried in other colleges and was one of the sug- 
gestions the Student Government Conference at Vassar gave. It 
has proved successful in many colleges and we see no reason why 
Agnes Scott should be the exception. However, for it to be suc- 
cessful, we must have your co-operation. Won’t each of you co- 
operate with us in making this “Free Speech Column” valuable 
and helpful to every organization at Agnes Scott? 


THE 


AGONISTI 


SANTA CLAUS VISITS AGNES 
SCOTT 


Y. W. C. A. Sponsors Christmas Tree 
for Children 


According to custom, Santa Claus 
paid his annual visit of two brief 
hours: to Agnes Scott last Saturday 
afternoon, December 13th. (You see, 
dearies, there are so many children 
in the world that the good old saint 
must come to some of them before 
the 25th). When Santa came, the 
bare, bleak old gymnasium was 
changed, in the twinkle of his jolly 
old eye, to a kiddy land of Christmas 
joys. Instead of just girls in white 
middies and blue bloomers, one saw 
a myriad of happy little boys and 
girls gazing delightfully at the tall, 
tinseled Christmas tree with a wealth 
of toys and fruits at its base, or 
crowding around Santa Claus, or mer- 
rily blowing horns, or watching the 
new dolly’s eyes close, or generally 
rollicking. 

The inhabitants of this “kiddy 
land” were really one hundred and 
twenty-five youngsters from the mill 
districts of Atlanta for whom the 
Agnes Scott girls, according to tra- 
dition, were giving a Christmas tree. 
The Y. W. C. A. sponsored the en- 
tertainment and one hundred and 
twenty-five college girls acted as 
foster mothers for the little boys and 
girls, each being responsible for the 
presents which her particular child 
received. 

It is quite interesting to note that 
triplets were among the children 
present. They belong to the Toney 
family and are two girls and a boy, 
age five, Helena, Hansell and Harold. 

Santa Claus (but sh-h-h, nobody 
under sixteen is allowed to read this) 
was really Martha Lyn Manly. 


POETRY CLUB ADMITS TWO 
NEW MEMBERS 


Tryouts of Shields and Riviere Ac- 
cepted 


Poetry Club was delightfully en- 
tertained December 9 by Miss Poca- 
hontas Wight. The meeting was an 
unusually interesting one. Every 
member presented a poem, the one 
by Miss Bland being especially liked. 
The two new members, Mary Riviere 
and Sarah Shields, were welcomed 
into the circle. Poetry Club is de- 
lighted with these two additions, 
whose work showed much promise. 
Out of four contestants, Mary and 
Sarah won the approval of the com- 
mittee by means of the following: 

ACHIEVEMENT 
By Sarah Shields 
Dreams 
Wistful, fertile fancies, 
Children of Desire— 
That flit across our minds 
When we're alone. 
Plans 
Gathered, cherished ideas, 
Fancies crystallized— 
That heart and mind work hand 
In hand to frame. 
Deeds 
Final, hoped-for outcome, 
Crowning of success— 
A tribute to the one 
That builded them, 


SENTINELS 

By Mary Riviere 
Watching, waiting for the morn, 
They stand to greet the silent dawn. 
Stretching, yearning towards the sky, 
Grotesque fingers reaching high, 
Silver, sombre in the gleam 
Of the pale moon’s snowy beam, 
Leafless oaks and greyish pines 
Sketch the sky with ghostly lines. 


NINE COLLEGES TO CONTEST AT 
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 
ANNOUNCED 


The nine colleges to take part in 
the national intercollegiate theatrical 
contest which will be held at North- 
western University from December 
30th to January Ist, have been an- 
nounced as follows: 

College. 

De Pauw 

University of W. Virginia—“Riders to 
the Sea.” 

University of Kansas—“Beauty and 
the Jacolin.” 

Ohio Wesleyan University — “The 

Florist Shop,” 

Agnes Scott—“The Conflict.” 
Elmira College—“Daggers and Diam- 
onds.” 


Play. 


€:. 


CHRISTMAS, PRESENTS BEING 
SOLD ON THE CAMPUS 


With articles for Christmas pres- 
ents being sold on the campus, and 
a new ten-cent store in big Decatur, 
there is no need for Agnes Scott 
girls to visit Atlanta at all to do 
their Christmas shopping. The pres- 
ents being sold on the campus are 
beautiful as well as useful. 

The Grier girls in Sturgis, who are 
from China, are selling many beau- 
tiful and unique Chinese things, such 
as beads, mapkin-holders, slippers, 
knick knacks for the neck, table 
covers, and many similar gifts, 

One girl is selling gfits which 
should find a ready market. She is 
selling that always acceptable gift, 
handkerchiefs. Elizabeth Clark, who 
rooms in Main, made these lovely 
linen handkerchiefs and then put up 
a poster in Main Hall to advertise 
them. 

Then, of course, the tea room al- 
ways has a supply of novel, delight- 
ful gifts. These range all the way 
from handkerchiefs to adorable hand- 
made rag dolls, 

So, with all these gifts on the cam- 
pus, why the rush for Decatur cars 
and Whitehall Street? 


NEW GYMNASIUM STARTED 


Work has actually started on the 
new gym! If you don’t believe it, 
just take a look at the hockey field. 
The entire east end of the field is 
plowed up, and five teams of horses 
are daily making the space broader 
and deeper. Even the place where 
the swimming pool is to be can be 
seen, and is already some six feet 
deep. This pool is to be regulation 
size, so that next year standard 
aquatic contests can be held. 

A work-house has been erected right 
back of Science Hall, and building 
materials are being brought together. 
When we return after Christmas, 
foundations will probably have been 
laid, and before the opening of school 
next fall, we will really have a fine 


new gym. 
MEETING OF PI ALPHA PHI 


The last meeting of the Pi Alpha 
Phi before the holidays was called 
by the president, Ellen Walker, on 
Friday night, December 12. At this 
time the subject for the intercol- 
legiate debate, which is: Resolved, 
That the Johnson Immigration Bill 
Is for the Best Interest of the United 
States, was debated for the first 
time. 

The affirmative was supported by 
Ellen Douglas Leyburn and Olivia 
Swann, and the negative by Eliza- 
beth Henderson and Catherine 
Graeber. 

The decision of the judges was ren- 
dered in favor of 

The next debate will be on Janu- 
ary 8, 1925, and will be on a phase 
of the intercollegiate question: Re- 
solved, That the Selective Immigra- 
tion Act of 1924 Is for the Best In- 
terests of the U. S. from the Point 
of Labor. 


Kansas State—“Fancy Free.” 
University of North Carolina—*The 

Will o’ the Wisp.” 

University of Michigan—‘A Sunny 

Morning.” 

Agnes Scott will play Wednesday 
afternoon, December 31st, at 3:15 
o’clock, the players being Isabel Fer- 
guson, Mary Ben Wright, Louise 
Buchanan, and Mary Freeman. 


Intercollegiate 
News 


The Carnegie Library at Georgia 
Tech, acting on suggestions of the 
Commerce Department, has set aside 
a certain section to form a business 


library. Books on Accounting, Mar- 
keting, Insurance and Real Estate are 
included in the selection. 


The New Student News Service is 
our authority for the following: 

Above the smoke and cinders of 
Pittsburg will rise the tallest uni- 
versity in the world. According to 
a report by John G. Bowman, chancel- 
lor of the University of Pittsburg, 
the proposed “Cathedral of learning” 
will do its skyseraping from a vantage 
point of 52 stories, which celestial 
privilege will cost the trustees and 
alumni about $10,000,000. The new 
home of the University of Pittsburg, 
planned to accommodate 12,000 will 
tower 680 feet, and will be equipped 
with 16 high-speed elevators. It is 
reported that professors have all sign- 
ed a pledge not to drop students from 
class-rooms. 


A Rule of Three. 
Three things to govern—Temper, 
tongue and conduct. 
Three things to cultivate—Courage, 
affection and gentleness. 
Three things to commend—Thrift, 
industry and promptness. 
Three things to despise—Cruelty, 
arrogance and ingratitude. 
Three things to wish for—Health, 
friends and contentment. 
Three things to admire—Dignity, 
gracefulness and intellectual power, 
Three things to give—Alms to the 
needy, comfort to the sad, and appre- 
ciation to the worthy. 
—Exchange. 


The students of Randolph Macon 
have set aside a column in The Yel- 
low Jacket which will be known as 
the “Forum.” The purpose of this 
column is to voice the sentiment of 
the student body on all subjects. It 
is devoted exclusively to comments 
from students on phases of college 
life. All contributions, whether com- 
mending or condemning college acti- 
vities, will be published. 


With the close of the football sea- 
son, most of the colleges have 
turned their attention toward debat- 
ing. Mercer teams are scheduled to 
encounter five colleges—Florida, Au- 
burn, Oglethorpe, Georgia Tech, and 
Alabama. Emory University begins its 
clash of wits this week with David- 
son. Randolph-Macon and _ Sophie- 
Newcomb are scheduled for the regu- 
lar triangular debates with Agnes 
Scott next March. (Other colleges 
who are beginning work along this 
line, have not as yet made public their 
schedules. 


TECH MARIONETTES 
PRESENT “DULCY” AT 
WOMAN’S CLUB 


GEORGIA 


The Georgia Tech Dramatic Club, 
the Marionettes, presented “Duley,” 
a comedy in three acts, on December 
12th and 13th in the Atlanta Woman’s 
Club auditorium. “Duley” written by 
George S. Kaufman and Mack Con- 
nelly, is considered the club’s great- 
est success. The Marionette orches- 
tra played between acts. The elab- 
orate costuming and an all-star cast 
made the performance excellent. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 
gant buildings with modern conven- 
iences, full and able faculty. Courses 


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For Catalog, Address J. R. McCAIN, President 


TYE 


AGONISTIC 


y. WGA. 


For the past few weeks the hearts 
of all the girls have been full of the 
thought of the holidays and home. The 
dining room has rung with our vaca- 
tion song for weeks; and chapel serv- 
ices and prayers have taken on a new 
meaning because of the Christmas 
carols. 


The culmination of all this holiday 
spirit, with the exception that going 
home is the real culmination, came 
on Saturday and Sunday with the 
two Christmases that we had here at 
school. The first was our tree for 
the little poor children; this has been 
discussed elsewhere. 

The second was our White Christ- 
mas service held Sunday at Y. W. 

This is always a beautiful service, 
and one which fills the hearts of all 
with a reverence for the meaning of 
Christmas. 


The electric lights were out and 
candles were placed in each window, 


MR. FRANK INMAN NOTED MEM- 
BER OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


is one of the largest cotton mercan- 
tile firms and exporters in the South. 
He is now a member of the cotton 
firm of Williamson, Inman, and 
Stribling, and maintains his office in 
the Williamson Bank Building. 

Mr. Inman also invested in other in- 
terests, becoming treasurer of the Al- 
dora Mills, of Barnesville, Ga., and 
of the Blount Carriage and Buggy 
Company of Atlanta. Since his fa- 
ther’s death, he has been a director 
of the Atlanta & Lowry National 


casting a mellow glow over the entire 
chapel, and seeming to reach out into 
the darkness, extending the warm 
hand of Christian love and fellowship 
to all within reach. 


The stage had a beautiful white 
Christmas tree m the center, and near 
by was a candelabra holding seven 
candles. Everything carried out the 
idea of the white Christmas. Even 
the girls in the choir were dressed in 
white, as well as those who led the 
service. 

It was a beautiful service, which we 
may take with us all through the holi- 
days. We sang Christmas carols; 
and there was special Christmas mu- 
sic by the choir. Then Mary Ann 
McKinney read the story of “The 
Other Wise Man” by Van Dyke. We 
all know this beautiful story, but it is 
one which will never grow old. 

With the two Christmases which we 
have had we should all be in a mood 
for the holidays and the Y. W. C. A. 
takes this opportunity of extending 
best wishes for the happiest Christ- 
mas you have ever had. 


Bank, and has succeeded his father 
also as a trustee of Agnes Scott Col- 
lege, and as a member of the exec- 
utive committee of Oglethorpe Uni- 
versity. 

In 1899 he married Miss Mary 
Louise Reese, who was an Agnes 
Scott girl and thus strengthened the 
bonds between the college and himself. 
He is a democrat, and has always given 
the party his hearty support, but 
has never consented to be a candidate 
for a political office. He is a mem- 
ber of the First Presbyterian church. 
He has membership in the Capital 
City, the Piedmont Driving, and 
Brookhaven Clubs. 


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MR. WANAMAKER LECTURES 
ON ITALY 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


could not run them. Then Mussolini, 
who had urged this very action, or- 
ganized the Facisti to counterbalance 
it. Mr. Wanamaker does not think 
very much of the Facisti. He believes 
that in time Italy would have emerg- 
ed from the state she was in and 
would have been on a much more 
solid foundation than now had it not 
been for the Facisti. He pointed out 
the fact that Mussolini is absolute dic- 
tator of Italy, that freedom of speech 
in freedom loving Italy is no longer 
tolerated, and that numerous outrages 
are committed under cover of the 
Facisti. The lesson which he left with 
us is that America can profit by 
Italy’s example and no have to un- 
dergo the suffering which Italy is 
now experiencing, 

One of the outstanding illusions 
which was dispelled in the course of 
the lecture was that of the undesira- 
bility of Italian immigrants. After 
the long period of oppression, it is 
remarkable that Italians were able to 
accomplish as much as they did. 
Thousands of the most desirable citi- 
zens were executed at that time in 
the past, and time must be given now 
for Italy to recuperate. Nevertheless, 
during the Resurrection period and the 
Great War, the Italians evinced re- 
markable heroism. In times of peace, 
despite the fact that both the ma- 
terials out of which articles are manu- 
factured and the power used in their 
manufacture have to be imported; de- 
spite the fact that shipments have to 
be made through foreign marines, the 
Italian products compete successful- 
ly in foreign markets with articles 
produced under every advantage. 
What is making the Italian win is his 
great brain. 

After the lecture, a reception was 
given in the lobby of Rebecca Scott 
Hall for Mr. Wanamaker, to which 
the college community and visitors 
were invited. Those who had the 
pleasure of meeting him found that he 
is even more delightful in social inter- 
course than on the platform. 


“No girl,” says the rule of a cer- 
tain co-ed college, “must walk the 
campus after dark, unless going to the 
library or to lectures, or for purposes 
of learning.” We don’t see where this 
rule is a rule at all. 


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SlDDIE GOSSIP 


“Giddy, me darlin’ ”— 

Well, this is the last time I’ll write 
to you before I go home!! 
realize that? 


Do you 
Why it almost scares 
me when I think about it; and I’ve 
got so much to tell you I just don’t 
know where to begin. 

I told you about the gym going to 
be built, didn’t I? Well, they’ve al- 
ready started it—that is digging up 
the hockey field 
the foundation, 


to get ready for 
They’ve built a tool 
house kinda back of the Science Hall 
and the other day when we were go- 
ing to have Algebra—one of the girls 
—I won’t tell you who ’cause it might 
embarrass her—looked out of the win- 
dow and saw it and said, “Oh—is that 
all the bigger the gym is going to 
be?” I never have laughed so much. 

They told us some more about it be- 
ing built in chapel the other morning 


and they’re not going to be able to 
have a swimming pool unless they 
have at least $5,000 more, so we—all 
of us students and faculty and all are 
going to get it up some way—by hook 
or by crook or somehow. It won’t be 
very hard to get somebody at home 
to give me 5 or 10 dollars, and then 
you see I can make some next sum- 
mer. Won’t it be nice to think next 
year when you go in swimming that 
you helped to build it—no matter how 
little you gave? 

Guess what Laura Frances South- 
gate did the other day? She’s a 
freshman who lives over in Inman— 
and she eats in the white house dining 
room. She was at the table one day 
and she saw everybody had a napkin 
but herself so she called John, the 
headwaiter, and asked him to please 
bring her a napkin. You see down 
here we all have our own napkins and 
she didn’t know it—rather I guess she 
didn’t. And too, one day she wanted 
to leave the table early and didn’t 
want to go by the three faculty ta- 
bles so she went out through the 
kitchen! I bet if Mrs. Finonell had 
seen her she’d have had a fit. 

Giddy, did you take chemistry with 
me in high school? It’s been so long 
I can’t remember—you see there’re 
so many things up here to make you 
disremember things you did at home. 
Well they say the higher part of it up 
here is awful but I don’t see how it 
ean be worse than chem I. 

Anyway, Emily Daughtery was tell- 


ing me about something funny that 


Piggly Wiggly 


Agnes Scott girls are always 
welcome— 

Wiggle thru and help yourself. 

EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT 


G. B. Spearman, Mgr. 


happened in Chem. III Lab the other 


day. I didn’t see much point to it 
She said Louise 
Plumb was showing a solution that 
she couldn’t make do right to Mr. 
Halt and he said, “Well, Miss Louise, 
what have you done?” Said she, “I 
put hydrochloric acid—’ “In 
what?” and then Louise said, “Oh, in 
excess.” What'd she mean? 

Guess what Miss Dexter told her 
psychology class the other day? That 
they wouldn’t need 
for Friday? Imagine not needing 
any intelligence for one minute at 


Agnes Scott. I think I’ll take all my 
classes from her next year. 


but maybe you will. 


in 


any intelligence 


I’m being interrupted now—will 
finish later. 
Later: The other night I was over 


on second floor Rebekah and all of 
a sudden we heard the most racket 
and fuss you can imagine. We went 
out in the hall and heard everybody 
yelling and screaming on third floor. 
They were having a town meeting so 
Virginia Browning, the chief of Police, 
told me. Martha Lin Manley, by self- 
campaigning elected herself mayor 
and all the other girls were dressed 
up like men or something and all had 
erazy names; anywhere from the dog- 
catcher and garbage man to the un- 
dertaker and taxgatherer. The police 
and sheriff were arresting the gamb- 
lers and drunkards and the debutantes 
were flirting outrageously with the 
dudes and bachelors and those who 
couldn’t find something worthwhile 
to do were yelling at each other. And 
down in Tin-Can Alley (one of the 
wings) somebody was playing “In- 
sufficient Sweetie.” ‘The whole im- 
pression was one of conglomeration” 
—as Miss Preston would say. 

The girls over on 3rd floor Inman 
say that Nellie Richardson is the 
cleanliest girl in school. The pitcher 
in her room wouldn’t hold enough H20 
(influence of chem. I) so the other 
girls on the wing gave a shower in 
her honor and each brought a pitcher 
full of H2 O and there were so many 
she had to spread them all over the 
hall outside her door. I’d have been 
seared that after the lights went out 
I’d stumble over them and then there’d 
be a shower sure ’nuff. 

This is a regular book, Giddy, and 
you must write me a long letter be- 
fore I come home—so my box will 
get dusted once more. 


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AGONISTIC 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Dapper Dan is terribly absent- 
minded. One evening he sat knocking 
out his pipe, and was heard te say, 
“Come in.” 


Ruth Masengill (in the infirmary) 
to Miss Daughtery: “Miss Daugh- 
tery I surely will miss you spraying 
me when I get out. of here.” 

Miss Daughtery (in reply): ‘Well, 
I guess you will. You don’t think 
I’m going to follow you around all 
over the campus, do you?” 


She: “Has your rommate an ear 
for music?” 

He: “Yes, and two 
mouth and a saxophone. 


hands, one 


” 


“Stick ‘em up, kid,” ordered the 
thug. “Where do you think you are 
goin’?” 

“Home,” murmured the student. 

“Where from?” 


“Money,” said Uncle Eben, “may 
not bring happiness, but it does help 
a pusson from being scared.” 


“Date.” “A hair on the head is worth two 

“Who with.” on the brush!” 

“Co-ed.” A fortune awaits the man who in- 

“Here, friend, take this five dollar| vents an adjustable engagement 
bill.” ring. 

“Well, well, Dick was almost You can wander in the United 


States, but you must go tu Italy to 
Rome. 


drowned last night.” 

“No! How come?” 

“The pillow slipped, the bed spread 
and he fell into a spring.” 


Women’s faults are many; 
Men have only two— 
Everything they say, and 
Everything they do! 


The Flavor Lasts. 

She (disgusted at seeing drunks): 
“Say, do you allow drunks at this 
dance?” 

He: ‘No, but if you are quiet, no- 
body will notice you.” 


Al: “Every time I look at you, 
dearest, you seem more beautiful.” 

Mary (expectantly): “Yes.” 

Al (brutally): “You should let me 
see you more often.” 


Well Said. 
“Fools throw kisses; wise men de- 
liver them in person.” 


Newlywed wife: “You should 
drink a cup of hot water at breakfast 
for your health.” 

Newlywed husband: 


Grinnel: “Come, come, Walker— 


try to talk a little common sense!” “T do but 


Walker: “But Grinnel, I wouldn’t| you call it by a different name.” 
take such an unfair advantage of 
you.” Verdi. 


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DAVIDSON GLEE CLUB PRE- 
SENTS PROGRAM AT AGNES 
SCOTT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


“The Old Road”—Seott 
By the chorus. 
2: 
“Out of the Dusk to You”—Tenor 
Solo—Mr. J. S. Gray. 
3; 
6. “Anvil Chorus”—Verdi. 
“Little Mother of Mine”—Baritone| “Love and Roses”—Czibulka-Danget. 
Solo—Mr. D. G. Wilson. Symphony Orchestra. 


Ke 4, 
Jazzy Orchestra—Mr. B. T. Crayton,| Quartet Selections—K. K. Kuartet. 
Leader. M. Lockhart, A. M. Martin, R. S. 
8. Lowrance, D. G. Wilson. 
“Music, When Soft Voices Die’— 5 


Shelley-Dickinson. String Trio—Selections—J. R. Ernest, 
“Sunrise and You” (Solo, D. G. Wil-| B. F. Earnest, and J. P. Thompson. 
son)—Penn. 6. 
“College Ties’—An Old Tune. “Asleep in the Deep’—Bass Solo— 


By the Chorus, E. M. Fitts. 
Interlude ts 
“Colored Musie”—Blackface Come-|“Love’s Old Sweet Song”—NMalloy. 
dians—Messrs. Will and Wilse (Solo by R. S. Lowrance) 
Kisers. “Rio”—Kipling-German. 
Part Two. “QO! Davidson”—Beth Shields. 


“The Bandit Song” from “Ernani’”— By the chorus. 


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Ties for Men $1 to $3.50 
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Men’s Sterling Buckle Belts 
New Lizard Skin Bags 
Children’s Beaded Bags .............. 
Glove Silk Vests 


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PLAN FOR NEW GYMNASIUM 


It is with the greatest interest that 
all students, alumnae and friends of 
Agnes Scott College hear that at last 
ground has been broken for the new 
gymnasium, This building will have 
as its site the former site of the in- 
firmary and about half the hockey 
field. 

Last week at a meeting of the 
Board of Trustees it was definitely 
decided that work on this building 
could be put off no longer, in spite 
of the deficit of $40,000. Of the 
$166,000 needed, only $128,000 have 
been secured. Yet the board deem- 
ed it wise to go ahead with the gym- 
nasium, the first of the buildings 
which will make a “Greater Agnes 
Scott,” and to plan to pay for the 
building on the installment plan. The 
fund already secured is large enough 
to erect the exterior of the building, 
the gymnasium proper, the stage, 
the floor for the balcony, the room 
for the swimming pool, and the six 
or seven rooms to be fitted for stu- 
dent activities, such as different 
clubs—K. U. B., Pi Alpha Phi, B. 
O. Z., ete. But the elaborate light- 
ing system for the stage and the 
pool itself will have to await further 
funds. 

This gymnasium of ours will be 
not only “a thing of beauty,” as it 
undoubtedly will, but it will be the 
best building of its kind in this sec- 
tion of the country. The equipment 
will contain everything that can pos- 
sibly be needed in a gym, from 
“horses” to the doctor’s office. On 
the ground floor will be the swim- 
ming pool and a large room contain- 
ing basket lockers and box lockers. 
There will be every inducement for 
swimmers—a tiled pool, 25 by 60 
feet, showers, and even a hair-drying 
establishment. Then, too, on the 
ground floor will be a laundry for 
middies! No gym clothes will ever 
be taken from the building. Also on 
this floor will be a special gymna- 
sium fitted for girls taking I. G— 
individual gymnasium—and a kitchen 
where lunches can be served, 

The main floor will be given over 
to offices of physical education direc- 
tors and the College physician, physi- 
cal examination rooms, rest rooms 
and the gymnaisum proper, the main 
feature of the floor, which can serve 
both as gym and as auditorium, for 
at one end will be a raised gymna- 
sium floor, which can easily be con- 
verted into a stage. But the main 
gymnasium will be the pride of our 
hearts. It will be 70 by 90 feet, large 
enough for two basketball courts, and 
think of holding Thanksgiving and 
Founder’s Day dances in such a huge 
place! 

The third floor will consist of a 
balcony, which will seat two hundred 
and seventy people, and the rooms 
for student activities, and a room 
where lights can be shifted for the 
stage on the floor below. 

This will be our gymnasium when 
completed. A most perfectly equip- 
ped building it will be. Gym will 
no longer be a bore with such an 
incentive! It is hoped that with such 
an ideal as this before us, money 
enouzh may be secured to complete 
all the features by September, 1925. 


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Alumnae News 


Edith Camp MecLennon (Mrs. J. A.) 
ex, 25, announces the arrival of Allan, 
Jr., on November 24. She is now 
hoping that by 1943 Agnes Scott will 
be co-ed. 

Clara Mae and Imogene Allen, ’23, 
have blossomed out into full-fledged 
teachers. Clara Mae is teaching Eng- 
lish in Elberton High School and 
Imogene is teaching Latin and Al- 
gebra in McDonough High School. 

Ruth Evans was a visitor at the 
Alumnae House last week. 

Laura Cooper, 16, who also taught 
at Agnes Scott, is soon to be married 
to Claude Christopher, of Barnes- 
ville. 

The following engagements appear- 
ed in Sunday’s paper: 

“Dr. and Mrs. Gillespie Enloe an- 
nounce the engagement of their 
daughter, Elizabeth, to Gerald Ral- 
eigh MacCarthy, of hapel Hill, N. C., 
the marriage to be solemnized Decem- 
ber 25 at the Druid Hills’ Presby- 
terian church. No cards.” Elizabeth 
is a graduate of ’21. 

“Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lucien El- 
year announce the engagement of 
their daughter, Dorothy, to Calhoun 
Emmet Menchener, of Atlanta, the 
marriage to take place at the home 
of the bride’s parents on Peachtree 
Road, January 6. 


STUDENT CAMPAIGN FOR NEW 
GYMNASIUM 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


tion, We, however, owe Agnes Scott 
something more than a mere money 
debt; we owe her a debt of love and 
joy. Other colleges are being aided 
by their student bodies. Vassar stud- 
ents and Wesleyan girls came to the 
support of their colleges; shall we do 
less? We feel proud that our col- 
lege stands for the best in all lines, 
and we want the future as well as 
the past to prove that her name leads 


‘all the rest. 


Hoase, Black Friars, and the Ath- 
letiec Association, to which the matter 
was carried by Dr. McCain, have 
worked out a plan for the campaign. 
Pledge cards have been made for 
sums ranging from $5 to $100. Each 
girl is asked to pledge that she will 
be responsible for raising a certain 
amount by January 1, 1926. To aid 
in collecting her money, each girl is 
given four cards which have places 
for ten dimes each, and, as Miss Ran- 
dolph suggested, the dimes may be 
removed when the card is full and 
other dimes put in their places. Each 
girl who pledges money will be given 
an A. S. C. button to wear. Many of 
the organizations on the campus have 
already made pledges. Other schemes 
are also to be used in securing the 
money. Plays and stunts will be given 
throughout the coming year, and the 
left-over budgets of the various or- 
ganizations are to be used. 

Miss Randolph has made a drawing 
of the new building in which each 
brick represents a dollar. As the 
money is pledged the bricks are color- 
ed red. This drawing is on the bulle- 
tin board in Main Building; so all may 
see the progress that is made. Pledge 
your amount and watch the gym- 
nasium grow! 


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She: “No; I never notice people in 
that condition.” 


“That isn’t fair,” said the conductor 
as he returned the button. 


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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1925 


Mr-and Mrs: Dubose Heyward to |Rapid Progress On/Caro 


Spend a Week at Agnes Scott 


Mr. Heyward, South 
Carolina Poet, 
Lectures Monday 


Mrs. Heyward, Playwright, 
Will Talk in Chapel 


Agnes Scott is very fortunate in 
having Mr. and Mrs. Dubose Heyward 
spend a week on our campus. Mr. 
Heyward charmed the college com- 
munity in his stay of one day last 
February, when he lectured under the 
auspices of the Lecture Association. 
This year he comes to spend a week, 
to encourage the writing of poetry 
among the students by the influence 
of having a real poet among us. 

Mrs. Heyward will make her first 
visit to Agnes Scott and we are look- 
ing forward with much pleasure to 
her stay. Mrs. Heyward is a play- 
wright and her first play was a Har- 
vard Prize Play. She has recently 
written a new play which will be put 
on first by the Town Theatre at Co- 
lumbia, South Carolina. Mr. George 
P. Baker, of Harvard, is coming down 
to Columbia to see the play. Mrs. 
Heyward studied at Harvard under 
Mr. Baker, Later the play will appear 
at a “Punch and Judy” Theatre in 
New York. Mrs. Heyward will speak 
in chapel Thursday morning, she will 
also speak to the English class in 
modern drama. 

Mr. Heyward is a native Charles- 
tonian and has published short fiction 
articles and reviews, but for several 
years past he has devoted his entire 
writing time to poetry. 

He has contributed to th e“Atlantic 
Monthly,” “North American Review,” 

“London Mercury,” “Outlook,” “Ev- 
erybody’s Magazine,” “Poetry —A 
Magazine of Verse,” “Contemporary 
Verse,” “Lyric,” and other magazines, 

His work will be found in “Braith- 
waite’s Anthologies for 1921 and 
1922,” the “New Poetry Anthology,” 
edited by Harriet Monroe, “Contempo- 
rary Verse Anthology” and the “Pe- 
terborough Anthology,” published by 
the Theatre Arts Press, 1923. 

The poem, “Gamster’s All” took 
first pribe offered by Contempo- 
rary Verse for 1921, and two poems, 
“Dusk” and “Edgar Allen Poe,” re- 
ceived honorable mention in contest 
by “Poetry,” a magazine of Verse. 

Mr. Heyward is a member of the 
Poetry Society of America and also 
of the Poet’s Club of New York. He 
is also a member of the MacDowell 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) 


Classes Elect Officers 
For Second Semester 


Manly, Graeber, Leyburn, 
Anderson Re-Elected 


Last week was dotted quite heav- 
ily with elections, but the most im- 
portant of these were the elections 
by the Junior, Sophomore, and Fresh- 
man classes, of class officers for the 
second semester. 

The Junior Class, in a brief meet- 
ing, unanimously voted to retain the 
' officers of the first semester. These 
officers who have won the class’s ap- 
President, Catherine 


proval are: 

Graeber; Vice President, Sara Slaugh- 
ter; Secretary-Treasurer, Olivia 
Swann. 


The Sophomores reelected Ellen 
Douglas Leyburn as President. For 
Vice President, Elizabeth Clark, and 
for Secretary-Treasurer, Lib Lilly 
were chosen. 

Meeting on the same night as the 
Sophomores, the Freshmen claim to 
have had the best election of all. The 
first semester officers, President, Jack 
Anderson; Vice President, Louise Syd- 
nor; Secretary-Treasurer, Gwendolyn 
McKinnon, were unanimously reelect- 
ed. Mary Cunningham, who plays 
forward on the class basketball team, 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


Margery Speake 


Attends Student 
Volunteer Conference 


Meeting of Student Volunteers 
of United States and 
Canada 


Margery Speake left Tuesday morn- 
ing, January 27, to attend the For- 
eign Missions Convention of the Unit- 
ed States and Canada. The Conven- 
tion was held in the Washington Au- 
ditorium, at Washington, D. C., Janu- 
ary 28 to February 2. Agnes Scott 
was indeed fortunate in being allowed 
the opportunity of sending a dele- 
gate to this conference, the greatest 
missionary meeting within the last 
ten years, as only one hundred dele- 
gates from the Student Volunteers of 
the United States and Canada were 
present. The total number of dele- 
gates was limited to five thousand. 
This number included, besides the 
student volunteers, officers and mem- 
bers of Foreign Mission Boards, pas- 
tors of churches, laymen and laywo- 
men in equal numbers, general church 
officials, theological and college pro- 
fessors, and foreign missionaries at 
home on furlough. 

The primary purpose of the Con- 
vention was to inform and inspire the 
churches of Canada and the United 
States. It was an educational, not a 
deliberative or legislative assembly, 
and dealt with questions and problems 
of administration on the mission field. 
Its messages were designed to enlarge 
the interest and deepen the conviction 
of the Christian peoplesat the home 
base as to their foreign mission re- 
sponsibilities and obligations. 

The program of the Convention was 
carried out along the usual lines. 
There were two platform meetings in 
the Auditorium each day during the 
mornings and evenings. The best 
available speakers were secured for 
these meetings. Every afternoon 
there were simultaneous conferences, 
each with its own complete program. 
Provisions were made on the after- 
noon of Monday, February 2, for 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Georgia Student 
Volunteers to Hold 
Conference At 
Agnes Scott 


Many Interesting Speakers On 
Program 


The meeting of Georgia Student 
Volunteers here February 13, 14 and 
15 promises to be a great occasion 
for Agnes Scott and Decatur. For 


Student Volunteers and others inter- 
ested from all the colleges in Georgia 
will gather then for inspiration and 
fellowship. 

Most of the girls who come as dele- 
gates will be entertained in the Dor- 
mitories. The homes of Decatur are 
also open and the churches are unit- 
ing in cordial cooperation with the 
conference. About three hundred vis- 
itors are expected and preparations 
are being made to provide entertain- 
ment for them in addition to a won- 
derful program, including addresses 
by famous leaders of the movement 
and by returned missionaries them- 
selves. 

Students will take a prominent part 
in the program and numerous dis- 
cussions and denominational groups 
are being planned. 

The visitors will begin arriving Fri- 
day afternoon and will be welcomed 
by those in charge at a reception that 
night. The conference will be opened 
by an important meeting afterward. 
And these meetings will continue Sat- 
urday and close with an impressive 
service Sunday night. — 


Gymnasium Fund 


Over $5,000 Raised, and Last 
$500 Promised 


Half of Students Subscribers 


The growth of the new Gymnasium-’ 


Auditorium building is being evi- 
denced in two ways. All of us have 
noticed with approval how rapidly the 
actual work is going on down on the 
hockey field. On the side farthest 
from the library, the wall is already 
as high as the second story. Pro- 
gress is being made olso in another 
direction which is just as important, 
the building up of the swimming pool 
auditorium fund. 

Miss Randolph announced at Chapel 
shortly after the holidays the great 
success with which the campaign was 
meeting. Since then, the fund has 
been steadily increasing, as is evi- 
denced by the rise of the red brick 
line on the diagram in Main Hall. The 
sum that has been collected plus 
pledges is now over five thousand dol- 
lars. The contributions have ranged 
from one dime up. Miss Randolph 
has secured the promise of the last 
five hundred dollars when the rest of 
the money has been pledged. 

The way in which the money for 
this campaign has been secured va- 
ries as greatly as the amounts. There 
are direct gifts from individuals 
which are secured through the “dime 
cards” and pledge slips which we took 
home; gifts from the college organi- 
zations, which have responded 100 
per cent, including $500 from the Ath- 
letie Board, and money which has 
been earned. The recital of Poca- 
hontas Wight contributed $72.50 in 
this way, and Mr, Johnson is planning 
to charge for the Glee Club Concert 
this Spring and give what is taken in 
to the fund. 

The response of the student body, 
Miss Randolph says, has been splen- 
did. Half of us have pledged, but 

(Continued on Page 2, Column 5) 


Calendar For February 


Noted Speakers Chief Interest 
of Month 


Mr. and Mrs. DuBose Heyward will 
be the central figures of interest at 
the college during the entire first 
week fo February Mr, Heyward will 
begin his series of lectures in the 
Chapel at 8:30 p. m. on Monday, Feb- 
ruary 2. The College is giving this 
lecture to the College Community 
free of charge. A reception for Mr. 
and Mrs. Heyward will follow in Re- 
bekah Scott Lobby. 

On Tuesday, February 3, Thursday, 
February 5, and Saturday, February 
7, Mr. Heyward will lecture to Miss 
Laney’s classes of English 20. On 
Wednesday, February 4, and Friday, 
February 6, the entire college will 
have opportunities of hearing Mr. 
Heyward at Chapel. 

Mrs. Heyward will speak on the 
Modern Drama at Chapel, Thursday, 
February 5. 

Various entertainments have been 
planned in honor of Mr. and Mrs. 
Heyward during their stay at the col- 
lege. On Wednesday, they will have 
luncheon at White House, at Miss 
Howson’s table. Miss McKinney will 
entertain for them at 6 o’clock dinner 
in the Alumnae House. 

Miss Nan Stephens, an Alumna of 
Agnes Scott, will be hostess at tea 
at her home in Atlanta, in honor of 
Mr. and Mrs. Heyward, on Thursday, 
February 5. That evening Poetry 
Club will entertain for them. 

February 10, at 8:30 p.m., Mr. Blan- 
chard will speak to the College Com- 
munity in the Chapel. 

From February 13-15, the Student 
Volunteers Conference will be held. 
Agnes Scott is entertaining seventy- 
five delegates, so the dates promise 
to be a most interesting time for all. 

In reverence for the Father of Our 
Country there will be the annual Feb- 
ruary holiday, but as the 22nd falls on 


(Continued on Page 4, Column 4) 


lina Playmakers Delight 


Large Agnes Scott Audience 


Pocahontas Wight 


Gives Violin Recital 


Ruth Harrison and Gene Dozier 
On Program 


For the benefit of the new gym- 
nasium, Pocahontas Wight gave on 
Wednesday evening, January 28, a 


violin concert, assisted by Ruth Har- 
rison, reader; Eugenie Dozier, dancer; 
Mary Ray Dobbins, accompanist; and 
the Agnes Scott Violin Ensemble. In 
spite of the disagreeable weather, 
three was said to have been the lar- 
gest crowd preset that was ever be- 
fore at a concert at Agnes Scott. 
From the hearty applause and enthu- 
siastie praise, the program was thor- 
oughly enjoyed by all who were 
present. 

Poky’s ability as a violinist was dis- 
played in selections rendered with 
unique skill and charming grace. She 
was repeatedly encored and gracious- 
ly played Kreisler’s arrangement of 
“Song of India” by Rimsky-Korsakow 
and repeated the first part of “Ave 
Maria” by Schubert-Wilhelmj. Ruth 
Harrison also delighted the audience 
with her readings and answered an 
encore with a quite witty little rhyme. 
In a lovely Russian costume, Gene 
Dozier made us gaze with rapt at- 
tention, watching the movements of 
her light, graceful feet. She was ur- 
gently encored and responded with a 
repetition of Chopin’s ‘“Mazurka.” The 
Agnes Scott Violin Ensemble with 
Pocahontas playing the leading part 
was quite beautiful and effective. The 
work of Maty Bay, Dobbins as ac: 
companist also deserves commenda- 
tion for to her, of course, was due 
much of the success of the other per- 
formers. 

The stage for this occasion was 
unusually pretty with green plants, 
a basket of pink sweet peas, and sev- 
eral baskets of pink roses, the latter 
having been sent to Poky by admiring 
friends. 

For the new gymnasium, $5,000 of 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) 


Mr. W. C. Vereen 
Member of Board 
of Trustees 


Member of Executive Committee 
of ‘Trustees 


Mr. W. GC. Vereen, of Moultrie, Ga., 
is the fifth member of our Board of 
Trustees in length of time of service. 
He has been interested in our college 
for most of its history and has taken 
special interest in picking out girls 
who are the Agnes Scott type. Two 
of his daughters are Agnes Scott 
graduates and haye been interested 
and loyal like their father. Mr. 
Vereen also has several grand-daugh- 
ters, whom he is planning to send to 
Agnes Scott. 

Mr. Vereen may be betted described 
as a builder than in any other way. 
He has probably had more to do with 
the making of South Georgia into a 
rrosperous industrial and agricultural 
section than any other. He has been 
interested in many enterprises in 
Moultrie and other sections of the 
state. Among his various activities 
are banking, cotton manufacturing, 
meat packing, farming, building of 
railroads, turpentine distilling and 
dealing in real estate. In every one 
of these he has great activity and vis- 
ion, and has been a distinct leader. 

Besides his activities in education 
and business, Mr. Vereen is an elder 
in the Presbyterian Church in Moul- 
trie and one of the most prominent 
leaders of the denomination in the 
state. 

He is a member of the executive 
committee of the board of trustees 
and has been a very liberal contribu- 
tor to the college. 


The Carolina Playmakers, of the 
University of North Carolina, on their 
first tour of the South, presented a 
matinee program of folk-plays to a 
large and enthusiastic audience of 
students, faculty, and visitors from 
Atlanta and Decatur, in the chapel of 
Agnes Scott College, on January 26. 
The performance scored an enormous 
success, and gave to Blackfriars a 
stimulus which will undoubtedly have 
far-reaching results in dramatic pro- 
duction on our own campus. 

The first play was a comedy of 
Plantation Days, entitled “Gaius and 
Gaius, Jr.” It deals with a_ hot- 
headed old Southern gentleman who 
is absolute lord of his family and 
possessions, and peremptory beyond 
toleration; yet kind for all his blus- 
tering. The plot is based on a true 
incident. Mr. Gaius Mayfield, Sr., 
plantation owner, afflicted with im- 
aginary heart trouble, experiences one 
of the many occasions on which he 
feels his life ebbing from him, and 
is then prevailed upon by a cunning 
physician to repentantly grant three 
things his family has long wished: 
exemption from Sunday labor for his 
slaves, freedom of marriage for his 
son, and money for a church organ. 

Mr. George V. Denny’s interpreta- 
tion of Gaius Mayfield, Sr., was art 
so perfected as to seem no art. 

“Pixin’s,” a tragedy of a tenant- 
farm woman, was easily the most 
forceful of the three plays. The play 
is the result of the authors’ own ob- 
servation of that crushing poverty 
and ceaseless toil which so soon take 
the lustre from the eye of the tenant- 
farmer and the bloom from the cheek 
of his wife. It portrays the conflict 
between a work-worn tenant-farm wo- 
man—who is determined to snatch 
from her hard world what beauty she 
can in the shape of a vase, a flower, a 
visit to a friend—and her husband, 
whose eyes can see no beauty beyond 
the plowshare with which he turns 
the soil of his landlord’s farm. Lilly 
continually has her hopes dashed to 
pieces, as well as her vase, by her 
loving but. uncomprehending husband; 
and finally seeks refuge in the night, 
where at least she can see the stars 
overhead and the darkly silhouetted 
pine trees guarding the grave of their 
“Charlie.” Mr. Aubrey Shackell, as 
the tenant-farmer, and Miss Lilly 
Robinson, as his wife, played their 
difficult roles masterfully, and brought 
tears to the eyes of their audience 
more than once. 

(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) 


Pi Alpha Phi Chooses 
Twelve Debaters 


Interesting Debates on Inter- 
Collegiate Subject 


The twelve most efficient debaters, 
out of the forty composing the Pi 
Alpha Phi debating club, have been 
chosen to try-out in preliminaries for 
the intercollegiate debate when Agnes 
Scott will meet Randolph-Macon and 
Sophie Newcomb. These preliminar- 
ies will be held February 4 and 5 
on the subject for the intercollegiate 
debate, Resolved: ‘That the Ameri- 
can Immigration act of 1924 is for 
the best interest of the United 
States.” 

This subject in part was discussed 
at the last meeting of the club, the 
subject then being, Resolved: “That 
the American Immigration Act of 
1924 would not benefit Labor.” 

The six best debaters will be select- 
ed from these preliminary debates and 
these will meet one another a second 
time. 

Each member of the club was given 
a chance to try out and the twelve 
chosen were Olivia Swann, Pocahontas 
Wight, Elsa Jacobson, Isabel Fergu- 
son, Mary Davis, Dorothy Keith, Lar- 
son Mattox, Ruth Liggin, Margaret 
Hyatt, Catherine Graeber, Ellen 
Walker, Eloise Harris. 


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EDITORIAL 


There are certain times in life when we seem to have passed 
milestones, when one thing is finished and we have a new chance, 


a blank page upon which to write. 


of a new semester. 
lege life. 


Such a time is the beginning 


We have just finished one period of our col- 
We have left behind us the successes, and failures and 


mistakes of the past semester and during this spring we want to 


push forward to make Agnes Scott mean even more to us. 


We 


must turn the experience of the fall into preparation so that we 


may do better things this semester. 


The real value of college 


lies in the fact that we are learning to profit by our mistakes 
and so make each day better than the one before. 

There are a few definite things of which we have become 
careless, that we need to be reminded of as the new semester 
begins. The first of these is the library. Books which are being 
used by large classes have been disappearing from the library for 


longer or shorter periods. 


Won’t you each be eareful to sign for 


a book before you take it from the library and be just as careful 
to return it on time? You are being extremely selfish when you 
leave the library with a book without signing for it and you are 
putting other girls at a great disadvantage. 

We have also grown careless about the way we treat our 
books. They are being marked up and thrown around. We often 
fail to realize that they are the little things that count and as 


well the little things that ruin us. 


We would each hate to be 


called discourteous or have it said that we are hurting Agnes 
Scott, but that is what we are doing when we disfigure our library 
books. Strangers could draw but one conclusion from such signs. 
So we are asking that each girl feel individually responsible for 
the books in the library this semester. 

We have also grown careless about throwing trash on the 
campus, either from the windows or carelessly dropping papers 


about the campus. 


Let us turn over a new leaf and keep the 


campus really spotless throughout the spring. 
And we are given a wonderful chance this semester to really 


do something lasting for our Alma Mater. 


The students have 


pledged $5,000 on the new swimming pool and stage in the 
gymnasium. We want these to be finished by next September 
and they will be if every one will do her part. Let us do all the 
work we can to raise the money until every brick on the chart 
has been colored red. We can do it, so let each one say we will. 

We are hoping that the new semester will bring to each girl 
at Agnes Scott much pleasure and success in her college life 
and we hope that it will be the best semester Agnes Scott has 


ever had. 


————.s.:»SSS  —— 


CAROLINA PLAYMAKERS  DE-|is, in part: 


LIGHT LARGE AGNES SCOTT 
AUDIENCE 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


The superstitious spirit prevalent 
among the country people who not 
long ago lived on the banks of the 
Roanoke River in North Caro- 
lina was beautifully dramatized 
in a folk-play called “When Witches 
Ride.” Three typical countrymen are 
met in the storehouse of a crossroads 
store on a stormy night “fer a game 
o’ poker an’ a swig o’ liquer.” The 
tempestuousness of the storm arouses 
in the mind of Uncle Benny supersti- 
tious fear of the old witch, Phoeba 
Ward, who is said to visit folks dur- 
ing terrific thunderstorms. Ed shares 
the fear of his father, but Jake, the 
engineer, boastfully denies any dread 
of Phoeba Ward, and swaggers over 
to the jug for another draught of 
liquor. Just then Phoeba herself ap- 
pears, and begs shelter. Uncle Benny 
and Ed cringe, but Jake continues his 
bravado attitude. Finally, however, 
the morale of the fire-eating engineer 
gives way when he sees Phoeba rid- 
ing away on a streak of lightning 
with the devil himself seated by her 
side. 

The spirit of the play is beautifully 
expressed in the Prologue for the or- 
iginal production of the play, which 


“Then witches ride the stormy, thun- 
dering sky 

And signs and omens fill believing 

minds, 

Then old traditions live in simple 

speech 

And ours the heritage of wonder- 

ing.” 

Mrs. Alga Leavitt, as the weird old 
hag, showed artistic ability of the 
highest type. The behind-scene ap- 
paratus for making lightning and 
thunder was quite effective in pro- 
ducing a realistic impression of a 
thunderstorm. 

The history of the Carolina Play- 
makers dates from seven years ago, 
when Professor Frederick H. Koch 
came from North Dakota (though he 
is originally from Kentucky) to the 
University of North Carolina, and 
began to arouse interest in the folk- 
play. From a small beginning, the 
Players rapidly grew into what they 
are today, a nationally recognized 
company of folk-play producers. The 
Carolina folk-plays are written in 
English 31, a course in dramatic com- 
position offered at the University. 
The characters are drawn from local 
observation or personal experience. 
The settings are the work of stu- 
dents in English 34, dramatic pro- 
duction, under Mr. George V. Denny. 
As stated by themselves, the aim of 


AGNES SCOTT HEAD INDORSES 
COLUMBIA SEMINARY’S 
PLANS 


The location of Columbia Theologi- 
cal seminary in Decatur offers the 
Presbyterian general assembly its 
“most strategie opportunity for in- 
vesting money,” in the opinion of Dr. 
J. R. McCain, president of Agnes 
Seott college. 

A letter indorsing the location of 
the school at Decatur, written by Dr. 
McCain to Dr. R. O. Flinn, of At- 
lanta, chairman of the publicity com- 
mittee for the school, was made pub- 
lic Wednesday. 

It was also announced Wednesday 
by the Presbyterian Ministers’ asso- 
ciation that the removal of the semi- 
nary to Decatur will influnece a 
large number of young men to enter 
the ministry that otherwise might not 
be able to take the necessary sco- 
lastic work. Seven men and three 
young women already have declared 
they will enter Christian service pro- 
vided the school is located at Decatur, 
where they will be able to obtain the 
proper training. 

The letter written by Dr. MeCain 
follows: 

“My Dear Dr. Flinn: In response 
to your inquiry as to why I favor 
the campaign in behalf of Columbia 
seminary, I am very glad to write 
you frankly my personal attitude to- 
ward the matter, 

“For fifteen or twenty years, I be- 
lieved that Columbia seminary was 
a useless expense in our educational 
program. I admired its faculty and 
was proud of its past achievements, 
but I felt that there were too many 
seminaries and that Columbia would 
be the logical one to go. When the 
proposition was made at Synod in 
1923 to merge it with Union semi- 
nary, it appealed to me as a happy 
solution. 

Has Changed His Opinion. 

“This was before I gave the ques- 
tion serious study, and I have now 
completely reversed by judgment in 
the matter. The crucial point with 
me is this: If Columbia is dropped, 
all our seminaries will be right on 
the borders of the churech—Richmond, 
Louisville and Austin. In my judg- 
ment this would be a serious mistake. 
It would leave the heart of our church 
without an institution to furnish the 
needed supplies of ministers. Most 
educational institutions draw patron- 
age from radius of 100 miles and set- 
tle graduates close by. We have only 


the Playmakers is “to give to the 
people—in the mountains, on the 
plain, and by the sea—a means of ex- 
pressing in simple folk-plays their 
rich store of legend and history, of 
tales and songs heard in the villages 
and in the country everywhere, and 
of the dramatic happenings all about 
us today.” The “Carolina Folk- 
Plays” have been published in two 
series, including, besides the plays 
presented here, “Dod Gast Ye Both,” 
“The Last of the Lowries,” “Trista,” 
and others. The books have been ac- 
cepted with enthusiasm, so that the 
first series is now in its third edi- 
tion. 

The work of the Carolina Playmak- 
ers is quite significant in the dramatic 
field, for it promotes a return to the 
common-place, to the drab life of an 
ordinary man, whcih, after all, is the 
most real, most dramatic, and inten- 
sest of all life. Their plays smack 
of the soil of North Carolina and the 
soil of North Carolina is that of the 
world; for, human traits are not lo- 
cal. Artistic interpretation of folk- 
life, in all its crudeness, pathos, beau- 
ty, and fun, is an ideal worth striving 
for. It creates understanding and 
sympathy, and, as Professor Koch 
says, “makes for the harmonious liv- 
ing together of man.” 

The Playmakers, wishing to present 
their folk-plays to the “home folks,” 
have just completed an eight-day 
Southern tour, touching Badin, N. C., 
Columbia, S. C., Atlanta, Macon, Sa- 
vannah, Ga., Charleston, S. C., Lum- 
berton, N. C., and Pinehurst, N. C. 

The program is as follows: 

GAIUS AND GATUS, JR. 
A Comedy of Plantation Days 
By Lucy M. Cobb 
The Characters 

Gaius Mayfield, a plantation owner 
—George V. Denny. 

Mrs. Mayfield, his wife—Margaret 
Jones. 

Gaius Mayfield, Jr.—P. L. Elmore. 

Dr. Foster—Aubrey Shackell. 

Ben, a young slave—Ray Heffner. 


to look at the effect of Emory uni- 
versity school of religion to see what 
a step forward Methodism has taken 
in this community within ten years. 
Since Atlanta is the most accessible 
city in the assembly, since it has more 
Presbyterians than any other city in 
the south, and since it has a natural 
territory of large size from which to 
draw, I am convinced that it ought 
to have a theological seminary. Sure- 
ly it is wiser to move the one from 
Columbia here than to try to start a 
new one. 

“We can give the seminary a good 
location of forty acres, only about 
a mile from the city limits of Atlanta; 
we can give the support of a united 
group of synods who have never been 
able to agree on support of any one 
institution. We have a splendid body 
of ministers in Atlanta who are a 
unit in favoring the move, and the 
people of our churches and of the 
city generally will no doubt give en- 
thusiastie loyalty when they know 
the facts. 

Agnes Scott Willing 

“T have been asked whether it 
might not take some money that 
would go to Agnes Scott if it comes 
to Atlanta. I think it will no doubt 
do this to some extent. We need 
money greatly, but we believe the 
cause of the Kingdom is one great 
cause, and we feel that all the insti- 
tutions that seek to do God’s will can 
find support. 

“Hence we do not hesitate to lend 
our hearty co-operation in getting all 
the money possible for the seminary 
just now. In my judgment, it is the 
most strategie opportunity for invest- 
ing money that faces the general as- 
sembly in any department of its work. 
If we can locate it in our midst firm- 
ly and generously, all of us will 
profit by its work, and all will share 
in the blessings which I believe God 
will pour out upon the efforts of the 
newly awakened institution, 

“Cordially, 
“J. R. M’CAIN.” 
—Atlanta Journal. 


Scene—Demopolis, North Carolina. 
The plantation home of Mr. Gaius 
Mayfield. 

Time—The fall of 1859. 

The curtains will be drawn to de- 
note the passing of time from 8 
o'clock Saturday evening until 5 
o'clock Sunday morning. 

FIXIN’S 
A Tragedy of a Tenant-Farm Woman 
By Erma nad Paul Greene 

The Characters: 

Ed Robinson, a young tenant farm- 
er—Aubrey Shackell. 

Lilly Robinson, his wife—Frances 
Gray. 

Jim Cooper, 
V. Denny. 

Scene—The kitchen of the Robinson 
farmhouse in Eastern North Carolina. 

Time—The Present. An autumn 
evening, about half-past six o’clock. 

WHEN WITCHES RIDE 
A Play of Carolina Folf-Superstition 
By Elizabeth A. Lay 
Characters of the Play 

Uncle Benny, of the crossroads 
store—Ray Heffner. 

Ed, his son—Aubrey Shackell. 

Jake, formerly a railroad engin- 
eer—George V. Denny. 

Phoeba Ward, witch—Alga Leavitt. 

Scene—The storehouse of a cross- 
roads store. The action takes place 
in the back country of Northampton 
County near the Roanoke River. 

Time—A stormy night during the 
period when country people still be- 
lieved in witches. 


his landlord—George 


Intercollegiate 


News 


Georgia Tech has been accepted 
as a model upon which will be devel- 
oped a similar engineering school, the 
Technological College ito be located at 
Lubbock, Texas. The project has been 
authorized by the Texas legislature, 
who have appropriated a liberal sum 
for this purpose. 
say, “We have studied every similar 
school in the United States, and we 
believe that the relationship that 
Georgia Tech bears to the Southeast 
comes nearer what we want Texas 
Tech to mean to the southwest than 
anything else we have found.” 


Texas authorities 


The Davidson tennis team is plan- 
The 
four men composing the team will 
match thirteen tennis teams of lead- 


ing schools in North Carolina, Vir- 
ginia and Maryland. 


ning a record-breaking tour. 


The writing of six hundred words 
on the back of a postage stamp has 
led Wesley Taylor, a graduate stu- 
dent in Columbia, to claim the world’s 
small-writing championship. Taylor 
transcribed two of Lincoln’s complete 
speeches on the small part of the 
back of a postage stamp, and this 
feat, he claims, surpasses that of 
Professor Nicola Durso, of Lecee Uni- 
versity, Italy. Durso wrote the his- 
tory of Montenegro on a postal card 
and forwarded it to Queen Elena. 

Using a fine steel pen, Taylor ac- 
complished his task without the use of 
a magnifying glass or any sort of 
rule or measure. “It is only fair to 
state,” said Taylor, “that while writ- 
ing with a stylus on glass or metal, 
with a microscope or special panto- 
graph, had been frequently and finely 
done, attempts at miniature writing 
done with pen and ink on paper are 
extremely rare. They have always 
been few, although such attempts as 
have been made have been felt wor- 
thy of not a little eulogy on the val- 
uable page of history.”—Columbia 
Spectator. 


The following is a description of 
the mythical “Miss Citadel” as voted 
by the students of that institution in 
a recent experimental contest: 

Type—Brunette. 

Height—Medium. 

Figure—Medium. 

Hair—Bobbed and brown. 

Special Qualifications— 

Dancer. 

Social type. 

Pianist. 

College Education. 

Anti-Suffragist. 

Non-smoker. 

A Moderate User of Cosmetics. 

Daughter of a Banker. 


RAPID PROGRESS ON GYMNA- 
SIUM FUND 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


there are yet about 240 who have 
not. If we want this campaign to be 
a success, and if we want a real “hon- 
est to goodness” swimming pool on 
the campus, all of us must lend our 
support. Otherwise, the splendid ef- 
forts of the loyal and enterprising 
among us will be to no avail. Agnes 
Scott has never failed yet, and next 
week, we hope to report that all of 
the students have pledged. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 
gant buildings with modem conven- 


iences, full and able faculty. Courses 
leading to A. B. degree. Best ad- 
vantage in music and art. 


ee 


THE 


AGONISTI 


C 


GIDDITE 


Thursday night. 
Dearest Giddy: 

I almost forgot it was the night to 
write you a letter and I’ve already 
crawled in bed—but just so you won’t 
be disappointed I’m going to write 
you a note anyway. 

It seems ages and ages since I 
wrote you last, doesn’t it? And I 
guess it was a right long time, ’cause 
that was before exams—and, Oh, Gid- 
dy, I still have my standing. (That 
means you can appear before the pub- 
lic and be in things—if you have 
the chance—because you've made 
grades good enough.) I must be start- 
ing out on a career like Mary Ann 
McKinney as I flunked Latin Prose. 
Isn’t that awful, Giddy? But I mer- 
ited History I and French I—under 
Miss Alexander, too! 

I don’t see how I can stand another 
set of exams, tho-—and me just a 
freshman. What on earth do the 


NUMBER OF OLD STUDENTS 
BACK FOR THE SECOND 
SEMESTER 


The coming of the new semester 

has also been attended by the ar- 
rival of several old girls and one new 
girl on the campus. The class of ’25 
especially welcomes Mary Bess Bow- 
doin and Margaret Ladd back into its 
midst. The class of '26 receives be- 
sides “Kitty” Houston, a newcomer, 
Mrs. Chey, of Korea. 
_ Since our dormitory space has been 
made more plentiful by the departure 
of those students matrimonially in- 
clined, there has been room for some 
of the students boarding in Decatur, 
to move on the campus. Among these 
who have moved are: Frances Craig- 
head, Lucy Winn, Louise Thomas, and 
Geraldine Menshouse. 


VALENTINES 


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Drug Co. 


A: $. SPECIALS 


Note Bock Paper, 65¢ Doz. 
Woodbury’s Soap, 55¢ Per Box 


Rosenbaum’s 


An established 
Shoppe for Hats, 
Furs and Hosiery 
of fine quality. 


HERE 


the new modes 
from many famous 
designers assure you 
a stylish selection. 


And moderate 
prices are a further 
inducement to select 
your Hat from our 
display. 


C.& C. 


Rosenbaum 


Eleven West Alabama 
ATLANTA 


WELCOME 
Hewey’s Drug Store 


Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


For prompt service 
Phone 
Dec. 0640 


GOSSIP 


Seniors do? 

Nearly everybody went somewhere 
last week end—after exams, you 
know—'cept, of course, me. Elsa 
Jacobsen went, too—in town and 
stayed with some really, truly rich 
people. She said they had two but- 
lers to wait on both sides of the table 
but seems like to me they could have 
all waited on the top side, don’t you 
think so, too? If I’d been her I'd 
have been scared to take a bite or do 
a thing for fear somebody ought to 
do it for me. 

Giddy, if you ever take physics, 
don’t make as many bright (?) re- 
marks as some folks do. Why, one 
of the girls, when Miss Howson asked 
what the lines on the earth were call- 
ed that joined the North Pole and 
South Pole, answered “the Equator.” 
Imagine that! Why, I think I even 
know better than that. 

I’m so sleepy now my eyes won’t 
stay open and I must get some sleep. 
I’ll write you a sure nuff good letter 
next time. At present “I’m wore 
down to a nub.” But I’m still, 

Your Aggie. 


MRS. DIECKMANN ENTERTAINS 
B. O. Z. 

A meeting with Mrs. Dieckmann 
Monday night—the most delightful 
thing which can happen to B. O. Z.! 
The evening was most appropriately 
begun by a startling account of Mr. 
Dieckmann’s burglar, who, although 
he did no more damage than to knock 
over a picture and take a vase as far 
as the front steps, was a fitting im- 
petus for more tales of burglary. 
After hearing other experiences with 
burglars there was an interesting dis- 
cussion of books and present day 
writers. Ellen Walker then read the 
only story of the evening, “The Blue 
Tower,” which was the story of three 
college girls, who, ten years after 
their graduation, came back to their 
Alma Mater and under the shadow 
of the Blue Tower, sacred to the mem- 
ory of their college days, told each 
other of the joys, and disappoint- 


ments which the past ten years had | jj 


brought to them. ‘The description of 
commencement with ist partings, the 
greetings of old friends, the loved 


blue tower gave an atmosphere which | | 


could belong to any college, but which 
was especially appealing to Agnes 
Seott girls. 

After delicious refreshments 
cherry charlotte and cake the late 
hour made the girls leave the cheery 
fire to ride sumptuously home in Mrs. 
Dieckmann’s and Virginia Hollings- 
worth’s cars. 
Dennis Lindsey Printing Co., 

Inc. 


Commercial Printing and 
Stationery 


We Are Located In Our Quarters 
421-423 Church Street 
DECATUR, GEORGIA 


First-Class Dressmaking 


Tailoring, Remodeling and Individual- 
ity. Your patronage solicited and ap-~- 
preciated. 


Satisfaction Guararlteed 
MRS. H. J. LANGSTON 
102 Church Street 
Right at “Agnes Scott” Car Stop 


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Agnes Scott girls are always | 
welcome— 
Wiggle thru and help yourself. 
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT 


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NEW SEMESTER BEGINS 


Monday, January 26, a new semes- 
ter began. To anyone familiar with 
Agnes Scott, the prominence of blue 
course cards the anxious consultation 
with committees and the absorbing in- 
terest in semester courses all proclaim 
the fact. With exams safely behind 
us, we have before us a brand new 
spring term full of hard work and 
surprises, too, 

Among the eagerly sought courses 
there are old friends as well as new 
ones. In English, Dr. Good will have 
the short story course, and one in 
American Literature. B. O. Z. mem- 
bers and would-be members are eager 
to begin. In the Biology department 
there is a new course—Mr. Heath, of 
Emory, is offering a course in Local 
Flora. This bids fair to be one of 
the most popular courses on the 
campus. Who doesn’t want a lab 
which calls for woods and fields in 
spring time? F 

The prospect of hard work is light- 
ened by such bright spots as the visit 
of Mr. and Mrs. DuBose Heyward, 
MecCormack’s concert in Atlanta this 
week, George Washington Scott’s 
birthday, when lovely ladies and be- 
wigged gentlemen will dance the min- 
uet in the gym, and only two months 
away looms spring holidays. Indeed, 
this promises to be one of the best 
semesters at Agnes Scott—good luck 
to everybody! 


BLACKFRIARS AND NORTH CAR- 
OLINA CLUB GIVE TEA FOR 
CAROLINA PLAYERS 


Blackfriars and the North Carolina 
Club were hostesses to the Carolina 
Playmakers at a tea given just after 
the performance of the players in the 
chapel of the college, Monday after- 
noon, January 26. The tea was given 
in the lobby of Rebekah Scott Hall. 
It was quite an informal affair, con- 
sisting chiefly in getting acquainted 
with kindred spirits. 

The main topics of conversation, as 
you may surmise, were “plays” and 
“North Carolina,” the hostesses find- 
ing their guests quite as charming 
off stage as on. Light refreshments 
of tea and sweet crackers were served. 


— * 


A Call Will Con- 


vince You 


Millinery 


A discount given on all purchases 


made by Agnes Scott. 


Trio Laundry 
Dry Cleaning 


and 


Shoe Repairing 


“Atlanta’s Finest’ 


AGENTS 


Florence Perkins Anne McKay 
Margaret Debele 


Alumnae News 


Rosamand Neisler Clark, who was a 
student here last year, is visiting 
Gertrude Henry this week. We sup- 
pose she. is comforting her for the 
loss of Susie. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernest Summer 
(Linda Miller, ’14) announce the birth 
of a daughter, Marion MacIntosh, 
January 20, 1925. 

It is very interesting to note that 
Agnes Scott has 15 grandchildren this 
year, and an attractive lot they are! 
Agnes Scott is fortunate to have at- 
tained the age where her daughters 
ean send their daughters to Agnes 
Scott for they are drawn closer to 
the college and to each other, through 
the love of a mutual Alma Mater. 
They are: 

Alice Coffin (Mrs. W. F. Smith)— 
Sara Smith (Junior). 

Claude Candler (Mrs. B. McKinney) 
—Caroline McKinney (Sophomore). 

Melrose Franklin (Mrs. R. J. Ken- 
nedy)—Evelyn Kennedy (Junior). 

Anais Cay (Mrs. Selden Jones)— 
Anais Jones (Freshman). 

Ethel Alexander (Mrs. L. M. 
Gaines)—Eloise Gaines (Freshman). 

Vera Reins (Mrs. I. E. Kamper)— 
Vera Kamper (Freshman). 

Annie Wiley (Mrs, Fairman Pres- 
ton)—Mirium Preston (Sophomore). 

Estelle Webb (Mrs. D. W. Shad- 
burn)—Susan Shadburn (Junior). 

Belle Jones (Mrs. C. R. Horton)— 
Sallie Horton (Senior). 

Posa Harden Mrs. Malcolm D. 
Jones)—Emily Jones (Junior). 

. May Goss (Mrs. M. I. Stone)—Della 
Stone (Freshman). 

Lucey Green (Mrs. G. H. Gardner) 
—Frances Gardner Senior). 

Lillian King (Mrs. F. H. Williams) 
—Lillian LeConte (Freshman). 

Clara Fuller (Mrs. T. M. Zellars)— 
Emily Zellars (Senior), Nellie Zel- 
lars (Junior). 

Margaret Powell is playing the so- 
ciety lady this winter. Although she 
isn’t making her debut, she is going 
to all the parties and having a good 
time. She is expecting to go to Texas 
soon. 

Dell Bernhardt is having an inter- 
esting winter teaching at Newland, 
N. G. Newland is the highest county 
seat east of the Rockies. 

Dot Bowron’s wedding was, an 
event of January in Birmingham, Ala. 
She is now Mrs. John Collins (Mr. 
Collins formerly attended Georgia 
Tech). Among the Agnes Scotters 
who were in it are: Lib Ransom, Lois 
McClain, Margaret Colville and Fran- 
ces Turner. 

Anna Meade is at home from a Eu- 
ropean trip. Her mother has been 


| quite ill and Anna has been in quar- 


antine for a month, 


Athletic News 


“Bat, drink and be merry for to- 
morrow you may have a test.” This 
is the motto of Agnes Scott girls, if 
we may judge by the many boxes of 
“food” which are always to be found 
in the various rooms. 

However, the ill-fated tests did be- 
gin in earnest two weeks ago. And 
with the arrival of these examina- 
tions promiscuous eating and lack of 
exercise took flight. Physical fitness 
during the exam period was encour- 
aged by an effective plan sponsored by 
the Athletic Board. 

A contest was put on between the 
different tables in each dining room. 
Every girl getting eight hours sleep, 
one hour of exercise, three meals, and 
abstaining from eating sweets except 
at the table, was given 10% credit 
each day. The ten girls at each ta- 
ble therefore gave their table a total 
of 100% daily, that is if each person 
kept the four “good health” require- 
ments. But if any one girl broke any 
one rule she lost her entire 10%, 
and the table credit was lowered ac- 
cordingly. : ~) am 

This isn’t the first year that the 
idea has been carried out. It origi- 
nated in 1923 and has been used dur- 
ing each mid-term exam period since. 
The plan adds the element of play 
and reward to that of duty to one’s 
self, and consequently creates much 
fun and interest while at the same 
time it bears out the laws of cor- 
rect living. Campus statistics show a 
marked improvement in the examina- 
tions stood under this plan over the 
ones taken in the former days of in- 
tensive cramming. 

The winning tables were: in Re- 
bekah Scott, Catherine Carrier’s, 
Josephine Scheussler’s and Sallie Hor- 
ton’s; in White House, Sarah Slaugh- 
ter’s. No table in White House made 
100% each day for the entire two 
weeks, but Sterling’s and Sarah’s ta- 
ble made the highest average, so the 
prize went to them. The winning 
tables were awarded ice cream and 
cake. 


“That girl’s hair always reminds 
me of a practical joke.” 

“How so?” 

“It’s always on me.” 


CLASSES ELECT OFFICERS FOR 
SECOND SEMESTER 
(Continued frem Page 1, Column 1) 


was elected to the Athletic Board. 
Mary Mackay Hough was chosen 
cheer leader. According to the Stu- 
dent Government rule, the Freshman 
class, is allowed, at the beginning 
of the second semester, to select two 
representatives to the Executive Com- 
mittee, and Ruth Thomas and Ruth 
Livermore were selected to these of- 
fices. 


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THE 


AGONISTI 


C 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Kinda Behind on Gathering. 
Wanted: Young farm hand to help 
gather eggs about fifteen years old. 


Hope for the best, prepare for the 
worst and take what comes. 
this was the motto which we acquired 
during the painful experience of the 
past two weeks. 


Large lady (beamingly): “Could I 
have a seat near the stage, please?” 

Ticket agent (brightly): “Why, cer- 
tainly. What row do you want” 

Fat lady (indignantly): “Don’t get 
fresh, young man.” 


H’Ray For Our Side. 

Drunk (as he hangs to a lamp post 
listening to the whistles and bells on 
New Year’s Eve): “Come on, Tillie, 
S’get drunk—gesh the armistice is 
signed.” 

Jacob: “How do you feel about the 
Ku Klux nowadays, Abie?” 

Abraham: “Just fine, Jakie; I sell 
them the sheets.” 

Robinson: “One night on the desert 
island I was held up by a naked say- 
age.” 

Crusoe: “What did you do?” 

Robinson: “Why, I covered him 
with my revolver.” 


Purchaser: “What is the charge for 
this battery?” 

Garageman: 
volts.” 

Purchaser: “How much is that in 
American money?” 


“One and one-half 


Student: “Give me twenty-five dol- 
lars’ worth of scratch paper.” 

The storekeeper: “Good gracious, 
why do you want so much scratch 
paper.” 

Student: 
itch.” 


“IT got the seven year 


Dumb: “I call my girl ‘Spearmint’.” 


Moreso: “Why; because she is 
‘Wrigley’?” 
Dumb: No, because she’s always 


after meals.” 


“T see you have a new room- -mate.”’ 
“No—I bought this tie myself.” 


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He (pathetically): “I suppose, 
when you go home you'll forget me?” 
She (willing to oblige): “I'll try.” 


Her: “Did you hear the chimney 
swallow?” 

Him (embarrassed, 
“That wasn’t the chimney, 
me, dear.” 


but truthful): 
that was 


“T hear you’re suffering from a 
chronic complaint.” 


“S-sh, not so loud. She’s in the 


next room,” 
Small boy: “Dd all cows and bees 
go to heaven?” 
Mother: “Of course not, why?” 
Small boy: “Good night! All that 


milk and honey the preacher said 
they had up there must be canned 
stuff.” 


Boss: “Don’t you know this is a 
private office? How much did you 
pay the office boy to let you in?” 

Job wanter: “I got in free of 
charge, sir. It says ‘No admission’ 
on the door.” 


STUDENT VOLUNTEER 
CONFERENCE 


MARGERY SPEAKE ATTENDS | 
! 
(Continued from Page 1, | 


Column 2), 


meetings of the representatives of the 
different denominational groups and 
boards for the purpose of considering 
the best methods of gathering up the 
results of the Convention and ecarry- 
ing to the churches and to the mem- 
bership of the different denominations 
the inspiration of the Convention. In 
addition to the regular meetings of 
the Convention, there was a special 
meeting for the Student Volunteers 
each day. 

The benefits of this interdenomi- 
national missionary convention to the 
churches- of Canada and the United 
States cannot be estimated. Held at 
this opportune time in the history of 
the church, bringing together so many 
of the leaders of the different denom- 
inations of these two countries as well 
as the leaders of the Christian forces 
in many other lands, the Foreign Mis- 
sionary Convention at Washington 
cannot fail to give a mighty impulse 
to the spiritual life of the churches 
and inspire them to greater sacrifice 
for the missionary objective and make 
possible a notable advance in the for- 
eign missionary movement. 


A Campus 


Crossword 


an i P ene 


| 


Horizontal. 

1, What we’ve just had—will have 
more at end of school. 

10. The people Miss Smith loves. 

11. Me, myself, I. 

12. What 
three times a day. 

14. No good .(abbr.) 

15. What we have for dinner every 
Sunday (abbr.) 

17. A candy pop's first name, 

18. Something of use when you hold 
hands (not boys’). 

19. Like. 

20. Unknown quantity. 

21. 100, written in two Roman nu- 
merals. 

22. How the baby says good bye. 

25. Pronoun. 

26. Our evening meal (abbr.) 

27. What we feel like in compari- 
son with the faculty—a small animal. 

28. What all proctors say. 

30.,Our alarm clock’s last name. 

31. Mona 

33. Conjunction (Latin). 

34. Prefix: meaning again. 

36. The Rookie’s girl. 


we all do—more than 


89. What three failures to register 


means, 


Big Decatur 


Vertical. 

1. Something we stand in awe of. 
2. What we write for the Agonistic. 
3. A state of middle west (abbr.) 
4. I am (contraction) 

5. A girl’s name—member of Junior 
Class. 

S. The terror of English majors. 

. That is (abbr.) 

8. What Agnes Scott girls and Tech 
boys do off Agnes Scott campus. 

9. Negative. 


13. The villain’s laugh. 

16. Celebrity (abbr.) 

19. What we all do—most of our 
time. ' 

20. Same as 20 Horizontal. 

21. What we all hate to get in the 


morning. 

25. Something that stays out on the 
campus after dark. Also a color. 

28. What the faculty does to us, but 
we never do to them. 


29. A cookie, Also one of officials 
of A. Si C. 
30. What we often feel like in eyes 


of faculty. 
82. Scarce on Agnes Scott campus. 
35. An expression that Miss Hale 
abhors. 
386. Medical college (abbr.) 
37. Part of verb “to be.” 
38. and behold! 


Has a New Drug Store 
Agnes Scott Is Welcome 


RieY & LACY 


DRUGGISTS 


Decatur Bank and Trust Co. Bldg. 
Phone Dearborn 1728 


W. M. RILEY 


L. M. LACY 


The Y. W. C, A. has chosen as its 
subject for this semester “The Oppor- 


tunities of a Chrisitan.” 
us are prone to stand aside and let 
others do the things which we could 
well do, ourselves, so we all hope to 
profit by the constructive talks which 


Many of 


we hope to have. 

We hope to take up all possible 
phases of a Christian’s life, from the 
simple things we can do in our ey- 
ery day living at home, at school or 
whatever we may be’ doing, to our at- 
titude toward the moving forces which 
can change the world as inter-racial 
problems, and problems of war. 

From February 13 to 15 Agnes 
Scott is to have the privilege of en- 
tertaining the Georgia Student Vol- 
unteers. We are to have about sev- 
enty-five girls in the dormitories and 
about two hundred and twenty-five 
student volunteers coming to meet- 
ings here. 

A plea has been made for rooms for 
those who are to stay in the college 
but we still lack a few rooms. If 
there is anyone who is willing to give 
up her room to our guests, it will be 
greatly appreciated by the Y. W. if 
she will turn her name in to a mem- 
ber of cabinet. 

We need the cooperation of the stu- 
dent body in putting over a thing as 
large as this; so if you are asked 
to serve on a committee or assist in 
any way, won’t you do all you can 
to help us entertain our guests? 

Next week we hope to tell you 
something of the Vocational Guidance 
committee which is soon to be work- 
ing on the campus to find the round 
hole for our round peg and the square 
hole for our square peg. 


CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


Sunday, the date of the holiday will 
be left to a decision made by the 
Seniors. The 21st or the 28rd will 
be selected. 

We are most fortunate in having 
the Provost of Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity to speak to the College Com- 
munity on February 22. 


MR. AND MRS. DUBOSE HEY- 
WARD TO SPEND A WEEK 
AT AGNES SCOTT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


Colony and worked at the Colony in 
Peterborough, N. H., during the sum- 
mer of 1921-22, Mr. Heyward will 
talk on this colony Wednesday morn- 
ing during the chapel period. The 
colony is composed of creative artists 
and he will tell of the people he has 
known there, and the work of the 
colony. On Friday morning he will 
talk on “Getting into Print.” 

In collaboration with Mr. Hervey 
Allen, Mr. Heyward has recently pub- 
lished a volume of Southern poems, 
entitled “Carolina Chansons”—Inter- 
pretations of the South constitutes the 


theme of most of Mr. Heyward’s. 
poems. 
Mr. Heyward has very recently 


written a novel “Pargo” which has. 
been accepted by Doran, one of the 
best publishing houses in America. 

Agnes Scott is delighted that Mr. 
and Mrs. Heyward are to be here for 
a week, The week is to be not only 
one of importanée in literary lines but 
also in social. 

The college entertained at a recep- 
tion for Mr. and Mrs. Heyward in 
Rebekah Scott lobby immediately aft- 
er the lecture Monday evening. There 
will be a number of teas and dinners 
for Agnes Scott’s two most delight- 
ful visitors. 
POCAHONTAS WIGHT GIVES 

VIOLIN RECITAL 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


the necessary $7,500.00 had already 
been pledged, and the concert added 
$70 more to this fund. The concert, 
then, was not only a delightful treat 
to all who were fortunate enough to 
be present, but added quite a few 
drops of water to our new swimming 
pool. 
The program was as follows: 


1. Prelude in G Minor - (Bruch)— 
Miss Wight. 
2. a. The Gypsies Road (Dora 


Sigerson); b. My Ships (Ella Wheel- 
er Wilcox)—Miss Harrison. 

8. a. Le Deluge (Saint-Saens)— 
Ensemble Obligato; b. Waltz in A 
Major (Brahms)—Miss Wight. 

4. a. Mazurka (Chopin); b. Trep- 
ak, Nut Cracker Suite—(Tschaikows- 
ky)—Miss Dozier. 

5. Ave Maria (Schubert-Wilhelmj) 
—Miss Wight. 


St FINES Sz \orrited 
« Alltsgiator OnxeSt Step 


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“The Style Center of the South” 


Peachtree :: Walton 


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Vol. X 


AtA 
Subject, ‘““The Challenge of 


— Labor To the College 
*  Stadent” 


On Tuesday, February 10, 
Scott will have the pleasure of hear- 
ing Mr. Paul Blanshard, field’ secre- 
tary of the League. for Industrial 
Democracy of New York. His subject, 
as presented to the collége community, 
will be, “The Challenge of Labor to 
the College Student.” This lecture 
promises to be of utmost interest to 


all)\not only because of the personal 
Rote 3 in the subject, but because of the 


excessive and intimate knowledge Mr. 
Blanshard has of the subject through 


his own personal experiences. 
Mr. Blanshard is a lecturer, author, 


actory worker, labor union officex, 
and world traveler. He graduated 
from Michigan University, where he 
won all oratorical honors available, 
and was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa 
key. Mr. Blanshard did post gradu- 
ate work at Harvard and Columbia, 
served as pastor of a Boston Congre- 
gational Church, then entered the la- 

or movement where he worked in a 
ie shop, and became organizer 
for the Amalgamated Textile Work- 
ers, and later, educational director in 
Rochester and New York for the 
Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Mr. 
Blanshard is given credit for the de- 
| velopment of many valuable experi- 
rents in workers’ _ education during 
his three years of educational work 
with the unions of the American Fed- 
eration of Labor and the clothing 
workers of Rochester. 

Mr. Blanshard is author of “An 
Outline of the British Labor Move- 


ment” and many pamphlets and mag- 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


Miss Davis Attends 
Convention At 
Rome, Ga. 


Delegate From DeKalb County 
League of Women Voters 


Agnes 


Miss Jean Davis, professor of So- 
Peiology and Economics at Agnes Seott, 
Fwas delegate from the Dekalb County 
League of Women Voters to the An- 
nual State Convention held at Rome 
last week. This was an important 
conference which planned to do con- 
structive work. 

Matters of present day 
were discussed, among them the ques- 
ion of holding classes in citizenship 
and civics for women. The conven- 
jon sponsored bills which are to come 
efore the legislature in the summer, 
otably, the Child Labor Amendment 
d protection for working women. 
rs. Sherwin, the national president, 
ade an excellent talk on the respon- 
‘sibilities of voters and the impor- 
nee of getting the facts and of see- 
ng both sides of the question. 

Miss Adele Clark, director for the 
outhern region, came back with Miss 
avis and spent part of Sunday on 
he Agnes Scott campus. She plans 
o send some outstanding woman 
peaker to Agnes Scott in the spring 
tell what the League stands for and 
hat it has accomplished. It is pos- 
ible that the speaker may be Miss 
ertrude Ely, who has spent some 
ime in Geneva, where she was an un- 
fficial observer of the League in ac- 


jon. 
(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 


interest 


‘Interesting Talk On 


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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1925 


Mr. Paul Blanshard To Lecture 
es Scott February 10 


Mrs. Dubose Heyward 
Talks in Chapel 


Drama” 


Agnes Scott had all 
eagerly looking forward to the talk 
which Mrs. DuBose Heyward made on 
“Modern Drama” in chapel Thursday 
The anticipations of the 
college community were not only real- 
ized, but indeed quite surpassed. For 
twenty exceedingly short minutes the 
attention of those present was ‘capti- 
vated by the sparkling, vivacious per- 
sonality of the speaker. 

Mrs, Heyward gave her personal ex- 
perience in getting a play produced, 
as an example of that of most play- 
wrights. Her play, “Nancy Ann,” 
since it took the Harvard prize for 
1923, was assured of a Broadway pro- 
duction, but that was only the begin- 
ning. After all kinds of difficulties 
caused by the whims of the star who 
was to take the part of Nancy Ann, 
the play was finally produced, al- 
though not in exactly the original 
form. Mrs. Heyward laughingly said 
that this fact provided her with quite 


week been 


morning. 


a good explanation concerning the: 


length of the run which her play had. 

The play “Nancy Ann” was based 
on Mrs. Heyward’s own experience. It 
deals with the effor 
the heroine, to get on the stage, and 
the ardent endeavors of her conserva- 
tive aunts to keep her off. Mrs. Hey- 
ward was well qualified to write such 
a play as a good part of her life, 
she tells us, has been spent at the 
homes of her aunts; and as she has 
learned about trying to get on -the 
stage by actual experience, when she 
wanted to get inside information 
about the stage, while studying in 
New York. Mrs. Heyward confessed 
that she spent quite a number of 
years in writing plays before she pro- 


duced one that was accepted. She 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) 


“Sun-up” Read at 
Blackfriar Meeting 


Several members of Blackfriars 
read two acts of the play “Sun-Up” 
at a regular meeting of the club on 
last Friday evening. Considering the 
difficulty of impersonating mountain- 
eers, whom most of the cast knew 
only by hearsay and reading, the 
parts were interpreted with unusual 
sincerity. Mary Ben Wright, who 
played the lead as Widow Cagle, de- 
serves special commendation for her- 
sympathetic presentation of a none 
too easy role. “Sun-Up” is now run- 
ning on Broadway, and the star who 
plays Widow Cagle there found it 
necessary to live six months with the 
mountaineers before she could master 
their dialect sufficiently to feel at 
home with it. 

“Sun-Up” is a play written by an 
Atlanta woman, Lula Vollmer, which 
deals with the life of the mountain 
people of western North Carolina. 
Mrs. Cagle is a strong opposer of 
the national government, or the 
“Jaw,” as she calls it; the law has 
killed her father, her husband, and 
her son; the first two for moonshin- 
ing, and the latter on the fields of 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) 


“Modern | 


Mr. Heyward Lectures 
On “Southern Poetry” 


Mr. 


Audience 


Last year Mr. Heyward was intro- 
duced to the student body by the Lec- 
ture Association as one of the leading 
contemporary poets. His lecture on 
Southern Poetry” 
gave us a new and more comprehen- 
sive outlook on our native art, its 
This 
year, it is a great privilege to have 
Mr. Heyward for a week, in which to 
become better acquainted with him 


“Contemporary 


struggles and accomplishments. 


personally and, arrive at a more com- 
plete understanding and appreciation 
of himself and his art. His lecture 
on Monday evening in the chapel con- 
tributed very largely to the achieve- 
ment of this desired effect. 

His subject, again, was “Contem- 
porary Southern Poetry”, the whole 
aspect of the field having changed 
since last year. The South, espe- 
cially, has developed its latent talent 
and shows a tendency toward group 
development. Charleston is the home 
of the very first and most widely 
known group and produces mostly re- 
gional poetry, getting its inspiration 
from the soil. While the poetry of 
this group is primarily local in its 
appeal, its local loyalty is fixed so 
firmly as to touch a national chord. 

Vanderbilt college | in Nashville, 
Tenn., is the center of another South- 
ern group of poets of a highly intel- 


| Tectual nature. Chalegipristic of these 
Ott 


Nee 

poets is “their fear bit veing: obvious, | 
which makes them ften too obscure 
and subtle. The poems of the Nash- 
ville group are e:!remely sophisti+ 


Heyward’s Poems Delight) 


No. 15 


Miss McKinney Gives 


Dinner for Heywards 


Member of Board of 
Trustees 


Also Active Alumna of Agnes 
Scott 


Perhaps one of the most interest- 
ing as well as one of the youngest of 
our board of trustees is Miss Mary 
Wallace Kirk, of Tuscumbia, Ala. 
One of the most interesting things 
about Miss Kirk is the fact that she 
is a graduate of Agnes Scott and is 
intensely interested in its develop- 
ment. 

As a student here, Miss Kirk took 
a very active part in student activi- 
She was a member of the ex- 
ecutive committee of Student Govern- 
ment all four years, and was secre- 
tary of Student Government one year. 
She also held the office of president 
of Y. W. C. A., and was a co-editor 
of the “Silhouette” one year. Hoase 
and Gamma Tau Alpha were not or- 
ganized when she graduated, but both 
clubs requested her to become a mem- 
ber after their organization. 

After graduation, Miss Kirk was 
elected president of the Alumnae As- 
sociation, in which capacity she served 
three years. It was during her term 
as president that the endowment cam- 
paign was in progress and she took a 
very active part in it. The Alumnae 
Assoi' ion was a also enlarged and re- 
cmentia an alumnae council was 
organized and the whole association 


ties. 


was put on its present basis. 


cated. One of the advantages of the'| Miss Kirk was appointed as an of- 


group plan is that by various meth- 


ods, a group of poets will attain a 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


Mr. Heyward Talks In 
Chapel 


Discusses MacDowell Colony and 
Getting Into Print 


The first of Mr. Heyward’s Chapel- 
hour lectures, which was delivered 
Wednesday morning, was concerned 
chiefly with the MacDowell colony of 
artists in New Hampshire. During 
his short lifetime, MacDowell found 
there the ideal spot for artistic work; 
and, when after his death friends 
wished to construct a memorial, Mrs. 
MacDowell suggested that the farm be 
enlarged so that other artists might 
be benefited by it. This has been 
done, and a colony is there now of 
some of the most promising workers 
along artistic lines. They work under 
ideal conditions. 

The studios are placed both on the 
bare tops of hills and in the shady 
depths of the pine woods. The work- 
ers go to these early every morning 
and remain there uninterrupted till 
the late afternoon. Lunch is deliver- 
ed at each studio by a truck, but the 
occupants are not disturbed, Entrance 
to the colony is not gained unless the 
applicant can secure the recommenda- 
tion of two outstanding msaters in his 
own field. He then feels the necessity 
of making good, and works earnestly 
while at the colony. 

As all those there are kindred 
spirits, they encourage one another 
and develop a very favorable atmos- 
phere for production. The evening 


conversations are especially invigor- 
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3) 


ficial representative of Agnes Scott 
one year at the convention of Ameri- 
can University of Women. She has 
just been appointed as one of the two 
women representatives on the national 
board of Blue Ridge, on the govern- 
ing board. 

During the war, Miss Kirk was the 
head of the hostess house work in 


Anniston, Alabama, and the woman 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) 


Miss Nan Stephens 
Gives Tea 


Mr. and Mrs. Dubose Heyward 
Entertained 


Of the many entertainments which 
have been given Mr. and Mrs. Hey- 
their visit the 
college was the beautiful tea with 
which Miss Nan Stephens honored 
them Tuesday afternoon at her lovely 
home on Briarcliff Road. The house 
for the oceasion was decorated with 


ward during at 


ferns, pot plants and cut flowers which 
added more charm to the already 
beautiful background; 
ate salad course was served. 

Miss Stephens is an alumna of Ag- 
nes Scott and is herself a playwright 
of note; so, for that reason she was 
doubly interested in Mr. and Mrs. 


a very elabor- 


Heyward. 

Quite a number of the prominent 
citizens of Atlanta and a large repre- 
sentation from Agnes Scott were in- 
vited to meet Mr. and Mrs. Heyward. 
Those from Agnes Seott were: Dr. 
and Mrs. McCain, Miss Hopkins, Miss 
Alexander, Miss Phythian, Miss Hear- 
on, Miss Laney, Miss Bland, Miss Me- 
Kinney, Miss Miss Gooch, 
and Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, a visitor 


Preston, 


at the college and an alumna. 


poems, 


Miss Kirk An Interesting|Miss Laney Entertains 


Poetry Club For 
Hey wards 


Among the social activities which 
were given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. 
DuBose Heyward, two of the most 
delightful were a dinner which Miss 
McKinney gave, and a meeting of the 
Poetry Club at which Miss Laney 
was the hostess. 

Miss McKinney entertained Wed- 
nesday evening at a dinner in the 
Alumnae House. The guests were 
Mr. and Mrs. DuBose Heyward, Miss 
Nan Stephens, who is a graduate of 
Agnes Scott and also a writer of 
plays; Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, who 
is an Agnes Scott Alumna, Miss 
Laney, Miss Alexander and Dr. Mc- 
Cain, 

The Poetry Club met in the Alum- 
nae House Thursday evening. A num- 
ber of the members of the club read 
their own poems. Mr. Heyward’s 
comments on the poetic work at Ag- 
nes Scott were very favorable, a d 
he showed a great interest in th 
creative work which is being done 
kere. 

It was a special pleasure to the 
old members of the Poetry Club to 
have Marjorie Lowe with them again. 
She had a lovely poem, “The Car- 
nival”, which delighted everyone. 

After the discussion of the Club’s 
Mr. Heyward read sc 
his own, and then, while refreshments 
were being served, the girls had an 
opportunity to become better acquaint- 
ed with both Mr. and Mrs. Heyward. 
Tt was an occasion which will always 
be remembered with pleasure and joy 
by all of the members of the Poetry 
Club. 


Double-Header Bas- 
ketball Game in Gym 


Student Varsity Defeats Faculty 


Freshies Yield To Juniors 


The most exciting basketball game 
of the season was a double-header 
staged last Friday night in the “gyni.” 
The Juniors and Freshmen fought 2 
well-matched contest, which ended in 
the Juniors running up a score of 24 
to the Freshies’ 21. But the most 
exciting part of the night’s entertain- 
ment was yet to come. The Faculty 
team played the student varsity, and 
of course the Faculty was well beat- 
en for their audacity. Though we 
cannot say there was much sensa- 
tional playing during this game, yet 
the floor presented quite a charming 
scenic effect. The Faculty 
dressed like country kids, most of 
them wearing overalls, while the stu- 
dents were in solid white 


were 


bloomers 
and middies, with purple ties. Miss 
Pirkle was undoubtedly the Faculty 
star, so far as attracting attention 
In the hottest part 
of the game she suddenly called time, 
and flopped down on the floor. Of 
course the other players crowded 
around the fallen one, but found that 
she simply felt disposed to rest. The 
result of the game was a score of 8 
for the Faculty indefinite 
number for the varsity, say 30. 


was concerned. 


and an 


Among the Faculty playing were: 
Misses Randolph, Pirkle, Haynes, Sin- 
clair, Cole, Brown and Daisy Frances 
Smith, 


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SHALL AGNES SCOTT BE A CENTER OF CREATIVE ART? 


Agnes Scott has been richly blessed in the past two weeks 
with a wealth of literary inspiration, brought to her very halls, 
especially in the fields of dramatic and poetic composition and 
production. The Carolina Playmakers presented to us very 
tangibly the possibilities of the development of a folk-drama in 
the South. They portrayed on our stage the common problems 
of every-day life, as they had known it on their own native soil. 
Then came Mrs. Heyward with the same message—stick close to 
the concrete; you can express best only what you have ex- 
perienced. 

Mr. Heyward has interpreted for us the trend of contemporary 
Southern poetry, in all its aspects—the spirit of the locale, intel- 
lectualism, lyrism. His reading of his own poems has indelibly 
impressed upon us the beauty and appeal of regional poetry. 

‘Undoubtedly, we have shed tears of sympathy for Lilly and 
her craving for “purty fixin’s”; have laughed at the picture of 
Nancy Ann and her “indefinite number of aunts”; thrilled to 
visions of “hill-blue eyes”; but is that all? Has the breeze of 
artistic inspiration swept over us, borne us high into the clouds, 
only to let us fall again, unchanged, into the same old rut? The 
proper stimulus for creative art on our own campus has been 
given; being psychologists, we await the response. Surely the 
machinery is at hand. Blackfriars waits eagerly to present plays 
written by students; the Shakespearian and modern drama 
courses point out the method; the annual drama prize is the re- 
ward. To be sure, we have no course definitely intended to teach 
the technique of drama composition; but that will come with 
need, as has the short story course. The apparatus is ready; 
and surely there are among our number girls of ready expression, 
with insight keen enough to fathom the depths of their own ob- 
servations; to see the tragedy of the mountain farmer’s life, 
whose horizon is bounded by the top row of his hillside cornfield; 
to appreciate the childishness of our own negroes’ weird legends; 
girls with wit quick enough to perceive the humorous and sad 
situations that may arise from possessing an indefinite number 
ef doting aunts (uncles are just as good). 

As for poetry, English Eighteen and Twenty give the proper 
foundation for writing; the Poetry Club nurtures the poetic mind; 
the “Aurora” publishes poems; and the Louise McKinney prize 
offers a reward. And have we, too, not eyes trained to see “the 
toe that peepeth coyly”’, or the beauty of the tower of Main 
etched against a cloudless sky; and ears attuned to catch the 
pathos in the broken voices of women like Evy’s mother? True, 
all of us can not have the necessary “spark o’ nature’s fire”; but 
many have, as is shown by their previous work; and the rest of 
us can be appreciative, and do our bit by building up a cultured 
audience. 

Seven years from now, and—Agnes Scott, the college center 
of the South in creative art; the poems of the students find places 
in anthologies yearly; their plays “go on Broadway”. Why not? 

Of course anthologies and Broadway are not to be the ulti- 
mate aim of our art. Our drama would mirror life faithfully, 
beautifully, and would promote sympathy among men. Our 
poetry would touch the heartstrings of man, and bear him up to 
the highest heights of Everest. 


THE 


DEBATING TEAMS CHOSEN 


Fergusen, Mattex, Graeber Meet 
Sophie Newcomb 


The preliminaries which determined 
the intercollegiate debaters, who are 
to uphold their Alma Mater in the 
triangular competition between Ran- 
dolph-Macon, Sophie Newcomb, and 
Agnes Scott, were held on February 
4 and 5. Twelve members of Pi Al- 
pha Phi (the debating society) were 
selected to take part in these try- 
outs on the intercollegiate subject: 
Resolved: “That the American immi- 
gration Act of 1924 is for the best 
interest of the United States.” After 
each girl had manifested her prowess 
as a public speaker and debater, the 
debating council chose the six whom 
it thought would best represent the 
question in the final contest. 

All twelve girls who took part in 
the preliminaries showed exceptional 
ability; and it was quite a task for 
judges to select the six best. How- 
ever, the final decision is: the nega- 
tive team that is to debate Randolph- 
Macon in Lynchburg consists of Dor- 
othy Keith, Pocahontas Wight and 
Eloise Harris; the affirmative team 
which will defend the home territory 
against Sophie Newcomb is made up 
of Isabel Ferguson, Catherine Graeber 
and Larson Mattox. Each team will 
be composed of two main speakers 
and one alternate; but this subdivision 
has not yet been decided upon. 

Of the six debaters only two of 
them are veterans in the service. Po- 
cahontas Wight has delivered the in- 
troductory speeches for the A. S. C. 
affirmative team for the past two 
years, while Isabel Ferguson was al- 
ternate for the team that stayed at 
home last year. We all know the 
ability of these two girls and predict 
a similar success for those who are 
stepping into the limelight as debat- 
ers for the first time. 

All old students know by experi- 
ence what the intercollegiate debates 
are, and are forward to the | 
event with much 
siasm. For the | en, the 20th 
of March holds an unparalleled oc- 
casion in store. 


MR. HEYWARD TALKS IN 
CHAPEL 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


ating and inspiring. Mrs. MacDowell 
has demonstrated that she is an ideal 
hostess by keeping things running 
smoothly always and never allowing 
friction to develop. 

The colony is an undoubted success. 
Budding artists often “find them- 
selves” there, and those who have 
already arrived produce some of their 
best work. Prize awards for work 
done there were listed, and found to 
fill more than two typewritten pages. 
Two novels have been crowned by the 
French Academy, and every American 
literary prize has been won one time 
at least. Mrs. MacDowell was given 
$5,000 by the Pictorial Review as the 
living person who has done most for 
America, in recognition of her work 
at the colony. 

Some of the noted people there are, 
Robinson, America’s greatest poet; 
Louis Grumburg, a composer who be- 
lieves in the fundamental validity of 
American Jazz; and Spice Simpson, 
the sculptor who is famous for his 
medallions, some of which are in the 
British museum. In closing, Mr. Hey- 
ward commented that romances are 
not encouraged between the men and 
women at the colony, but admitted 
that it was there he “found” Mrs. 
Heyward. 

His second Chapel lecture was de- 
livered Friday morning. In it he dis- 
cussed the various fields of writing 
and the opportunities of entering 
therein. He divided professional 
writing into four classes: poetry, 
fiction, drama, and free lance writing, 
and discussed all except the drama, 
which Mrs. Heyward had treated so 
well Thursday morning. 

Two points were made about poetry. 
First, it is generally an avocation, the 
poet’s livelihood being obtained in 
some other way. He pointed to him- 
self as an example. And, secondly, it 
is the field in which it is easiest to 
win recognition. There are always 
poetry magazines willing to print 
poems of any merit. These are sys- 


srest and enthu- | 


AGONISTIC 


MEMBERS OF INTERCOLLEGIATE 


MRS. CHEY’S KOREAN PARTY 


Last Saturday, Dr. and Mrs. Chey 
gave a Korean party at the Chop 
Suey Inn on Peachtree. As hosts, 
they were assisted by Miss Chahai- 
Chay, Mr. Kang, and Mr. Oh of Ag- 
nes Scott and Emory respectively. 
The feast was spread in a charming 
room where Chinese characters and 
Japanese lanterns created an Eastern 
atmosphere so strong that the busy 
street scenes outside seemed quite out 
of place. 

And such dishes as the Koreans 
with the interested aid of the Jap- 
anese had prepared! There was 
couk, kimchi, and others too compli- 
cated for description; a stew with rice 
and various salads. Afterwards we 
had good American ice cream and 
cake. The girls welcomed old favor- 
ites, and Miss Bland declared that she 
liked the strange food very much. 

Afterwards there were stories and 
tales of Korea which brought back old 
memories, Mr. Kang amused every- 
one with his story of the first time 
he was invited out for the evening 
in America. After he had carefully 
foregone his supper in anticipation of 
the big dinner coming, he discovered 
at eleven o’clock that the refresh- 
ments were cakes and tea. His moth- 
er found him a hungrier, wiser man 
when he returned home: With these 
stories and laughing attempts to re- 
call lost Korean phrases, time passed 
auickly until it was time to go to 
a movie. The whole evening was a 
never-to-be-forgotten one. 

The guests were Miss Bland, Mar- 
garet Bull, Ruth Owen, Dorothy Ow- 
en, and Miriam Preston. 
——————————————— 
tematically reviewed, and much de- 
sired publicity is gained for the 
poetry that is exceptional. 

Fiction was discussed under the 
heads of short story and of the novel. 
The short story field is the most pop- 
ulous and is fairly profitable, espec- 
ially if a story can be produced by the 
moving pictures. But professional 
short stories are the work, not of the 
artist, but of the highly skilled crafts- 
man. Success in this field requires 
a fertile imagination, facility in 
writing, daily practice at writing, de- 


plying 1 

ee The novel, Mr. Heyward 
said, is the longest shot in literary 
endeavor. He asked a publisher about 
what the chances are for success, and 
ees much of interest. Only about 

0% of the novels published are those 
tn are not solicited. If a publisher 
desires to print a novel of a certain 
type, he asks the author of that type 
to write one. All the novels sent in 
unsolicited are given a cursory read- 
ing, but it is worthwhile to read only 
about 5% of these carefully. Of that 
portion, only about one-tenth of 1% 
are published. The likelihood of suc- 
cess is very uncertain, then. The 
recipe Mr. Heyward offered those in- 
terested, was composed of imagina- 
tion, skill, determination, and willing- 
ness to let trifles go. 

The free lance writer, according to 
Mr. Heyward, is the jack-of-all- 
trades, excepting short story writing. 
Usually, he has produced a book of 
poems and a novel, and lives by 
writing reviews for 2 cents a word. 
Versatility is necessary in his trade, 
and he is a great gambler. But many 
“discoveries” are due to him. 

Lest he had dashed too much cold 
water on the hopes of A. S. C, em- 
bryonic authors, Mr. Heyward con- 
cluded his lecture with more encour- 
aging information. The present time 


Intercollegiate 


News 


American Youth Now at College 


American youth applied at the doors 
of colleges and universities in in- 
éreased numbers during the last year. 
Like Ford cars and a certain brand 
of cigarettes, higher education is to 
have its millions of satisfied users. 
Righty of the mos portant colleges 
and universities alone offered their 
educational ware to almost half 
a million customers during the past 
year. The steady increase in registra- 
tion is paralleled by increase in gifts 
and appropriations for the upkeep 
and expansion of our educational in- 
stitutions. 

Eighty-three of the leading colleges 
and universities in the United States 
now have 245,248 students. This is 
15,299 more than they had a year ago. 
This list contains only those students 
who at present have no occupation 
besides going to college. It does not 
include those enrolled in evening 
courses, extension classes or summer 
schools. The list is a representative 
one, including small denominational 
colleges, state universities, small co- 
educational colleges and colleges for 
women exclusively. 

In these colleges the increase in at- 
tendance for the last year has been 
6% per cent. Although the increase 
is not as large as in that period im- 
mediately following the war, it is 
much larger than the increase in pop- 
ulation. 

At the eighty-three foremost col- 
leges and universities, the total en- 
rollment at summer school is 160,000 
and at extension school 125,000. Add 
this number to the 245,000 full time 
students and we find these eighty- 
three institutions dealing out instruc- 
tion to almost half a million persons 
during the last year. 

Wih the ever-increasing army of 
education-seeking youngsters on their 
hands, the main preoccupation every- 
where is how to raise more money 
to build more buildings and equip 
more classrooms. Forty of the 
eighty-three colleges have large size 

r ams either under way 


are: Harvard, with a $5,000,000 b 
ness school; University of iowa, a 
$4,500,000 iiedicat center; Western 
Reserve, a $2,500,000 school of medi- 
cine. 

Many of the building programs 
have been made possible as the re- 
sult of large gifts by ‘millionaires, 
James B. Duke, George Eastman, 
George F. Baker, and others. The 
University of Chicago has made ar- 
rangements to double its present re- 
sources of $50,000,000. Many state 
legislatures will be asked for large 
appropriations for state universities. 
Ohio State is to ask for approximate- 
ly $16,000,000 during the next bi- 
ennium. The Universities of _Minne- 
sota, North Dakota, and South Caro- 
lina are also expecting funds from 
similar sources, 

—NEW STUDENT. 


offers the best chances to the South- 
ern writer. New England has realized 
that we are here, and is getting ready 
to hear from us. The South is stocked 
with sufficient lore and legends to 
furnish material for masterpieces. 
But while Southerners are hesitating 
to make use of their treasure, out- 
siders, like Sabatini and Hergesheim- 
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GIDDIE GOSSIP 


Thursday night. 
Dearest Giddy: 

You’re the nicest one to write me 
such a long letter for that short one 
I sent you. And it dusted out my 
mail box so good. You see they gave 
me a box all to myself because, I 
guess, my name begins with A and 
they thought I’d get a heap o’ letters, 
but I don’t. Now, if my name began 
with B I might be in the box with 
Charlotte Bell and the box would get 
dusted every. morning and afternoon. 
Really, Giddy, she makes me tired— 
she gets so much mail. Every day 
she gets at least six letters and I’m 
doing well if I get two in a whole 
week. 

Guess what’s going to be tomorrow 
night? A basketball game with the 
faculty! I bet it’s going to be fun- 
ny, and I wish you could see it. Miss 
Brown, she’s my Biology teacher, is 
going to play forward. I hope a heap 
of people come so we'll make lots 
of money to go for the gym. 

Giddy, I can’t wait till about three 
weeks more. They say it’s as exciting 
as the Freshman-Sophomore stunt 
night and everybody hugs everybody 
else if we win and you just clap and 
clap till your hands feel like they'll 
fall off—Oh! I didn’t tell you what 
it was, did 1? Well, it’s The Debate. 
‘Of course, all the old girls know what 
it’s like but I don’t. Last year we 
won one of them, but this year we 
want to do both. And tonight, Giddy, 


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they’re deciding on the girls who are 
to do it—debate, I mean. Don’t you 
think it would be exciting to go some- 
where or do something like that? You 
just wait till I’m a senior, though, 
and I might debate, too. 

And maybe by then I’ll know more 
boys around here so I can have dates 
a lot like Ruth Thomas and have out 
of town boys invite me in to dinner 
and shows like Elsa Jacobsen. And 
Eunice Kell? There’s a boy who’s 
just crazy about her and just sits 
and thinks up things he thinks she’d 
like to do. Shoot! I wish they’d 
divide up a little. 

There’s Edith Brown calling me to 
study Latin Prose with her. She just 
studies all the time, Giddy—and I 
know sometime she’s going to have a 


nervous breakdown. I hope I don’t 


ever. 
G’night—more next time. 
AGGIE. 
“SUN-UP” READ AT  BLACK- 


FRIAR MEETING 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


But why should her husband 
The moun- 


France. 
not have made whisky? 
taineer is overwhelmed with apples 
and corn, and the easiest way of mak- 
ing money is to change these into 
liquor. And surely it is cowardly to 
refrain from making whisky simply 
because a vague and hostile something 
called “law,” represented by a con- 
ceited sheriff, forbids it. Why, too, 
should the “law” call Rufe, her son, 
to fight for it? What had it done 
for him, and whom was it fighting 
anyway (Mrs, Cagle thought the Yan- 
kees), and for what? The play pre- 
sents the pathetic situation the gov- 
ernment has to meet in enforcing the 
law among a people who regard moon- 
shining as a right, and are far too 
ignorant to understand any duty of 
allegiance to a national union. 

The cast in the Blackfriar reading 
was as follows: 

Widow Cagle—Mary Ben Wright. 

Rufe Cagle—Georgia Mae Little (as 
substitute for Mary Anne McKinney). 

Pap Todd—Louisa Duls. 

Emmy Todd—Elizabeth Cheatham. 

Bud Todd—Emily Stead. 

Jim Weeks—Florena Perkins, 

Preacher—Ellen Douglas Labon. 

Stranger—Georgia Mae Little. 


Bob—Louise Buchanan. 


Miss McDougall: “I will ask you 
to name some of the lower animals 
beginning with Miss Edwards.” 


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Alumnae News 


The new officers for the Decatur 
Agnes Scott Club for this year are: 
President, Mrs. F. H. Robarts (Lou- 
ise Maness); Vice-president, Mrs. 
Walter Miller (Georgiana White); 
Secretary-Treasurer, Francis Amis. 
The Decatur Club has started the 
year well, They are planning this 
year to contribute $100 to the Alum- 
nae Fund, over and above the pledges 
The Decatur 


Club was delightfully entertained at 


of individual members. 


its last meeting by Mrs. Robarts and 
the outgoing officers. 
Dorohy Elyea, ex '24, was married 


to Mr. Calhoun Emmet Minchener, 


January 6, at the home of her par- 
ents on Peachtree Road. 

Minnie Liebheit and Olivie Lieb- 
heit, ex 1928, have been at Columbia 
since leaving Agnes Scott, completing 
work for their degrees. They were 
married with a double ceremony last 
September to Mr. J. Bartlett Segur, 
a chemist, and Mr. Roland Ure, a 
theologian, respectively. Both have 
apartments in New York. 

This beautiful poem of Miss Janef 
Preston’s, ’21, appeared in the last 


number of the Alumnae Quarterly: 


“To Rescue Today From Oblivion.” 
As trees print coolness on the heated 
grass, 
In clear, sharp images that lie out- 
lined, 
So beauty lays cool fingers as I pass 
Upon the parched places of my 
mind: 
The honeysuckle hedge’s breathing 
bloom 
That fills 9 lane with fragrant May, 
The star that swings her taper 
through the gloom 
That gathers at the closing of the 
day; 
The sudden glowing of a gracious 
thought, 
Akin to wonder, on a lifted face. 
These cool imprints of beauty have 
been wrought 
Upon the dullness of the common- 


place; 
And beautiful as bloom, or thought, 
or sky, 
A shining name today one called me 
by.” 


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2. Articles 10. Roman 
3. Mo. 11. Ego 
4. ’'m 12, Eat 
5. Nan 14. N. G. 
6. Anglo 15. Chick 

i.e. 17. Lolly 

Oggle 18. Ace 

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11. El 20.. X 
13, Aha 21. LL 
16. Cel. 22. Ta 
19. Study 25. We 
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24. Up 27. Pup 
25. White 28. Sh 
28. Slur 30, Ben 
29. Tart 31. Lisa 
30. Brat 33. Ut 
32. Men 34. Re 
35. Er 36. Mable 
36. M. C 39. Restriction 
87. bi 
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Authors, Buchanan, Ogden, Fain, 

Gregory. 
MISS KIRK AN INTERESTING 


MEMBER OF BOARD OF 
TRUSTEES 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


director of the State of Alabama in 
the United War Work Campaign. 

She is now the chairman of the 
Southern division of the National Y. 
W. C. A. council, is on the executive 
committee of the student department 
of the Y. W. C. A., and is also a 
member of the national board of Y. 
W. C. A. 

Miss Kirk is thus one of the busiest 
and most active of the trustees of 
Agnes Scott and one who is very much 
interested in and helpful toward its 
development. She has expressed a 
hope that Agnes Scott may become a 
center. of higher education and cre- 
ative art in the South. 


MRS. DUBOSE HEYWARD TALKS 


IN CHAPEL 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


added, however, that. it is not nec- 
essary to do so; and her advice to 
those who wish to have their work 
accepted in a shorter time is this: 
‘Don’t write about the labor problems 
of Abyssinia unless you have been to 
Abyssinia and know its labor prob- 
lems.” 

This informal and engaging dis- 
course was practically Mrs. Hey- 
ward’s debut in public speaking, and 


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MR. HEYWARD LECTURES ON 
“SOUTHERN POETRY” 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


wider recognition than an individual 
poet. Thus the Nashville group has 
an advantage in its publication of 
“The Fugitive.” 

The Norfolk group also publishes a 
poetry magazine called “The Lyric’. 
Their poems, which are of a very light 
lyrical vein, are somewhat the excep- 
tion to the generally serious tone of 
contemporary Southern poetry. Their 
lyrics are beautiful, but haven’t the 
largeness of conception that the po- 
ems of other groups have! 

In Georgia, there are a few inde- 
pendent poets, who have achieved dis- 
tinction, such as Arthur Barrow and 
Elfrieva Whiteside, and also the Ag- 
nes Scott group. Speaking of the is- 
sue of the “Aurora” of last spring, 
which was devoted to poetry, Mr. Hey- 
ward said: “The poetry number of 
the ‘Aurora’ of last spring is the best 
single issue of any college magazine 
I have ever seen.” 

After this survey of Southern con- 
temporary poetry, Mr. Heyward read 
choice selections of poems of each 
group and ended with several of his 
own poems from the book from which 
he gave the first reading here last 
year. Very interesting were “The 
Equinoxial Gale”, and “Black Christ- 


mas”. His poem “Dusk”, written to 
Charleston, is an exceptionally good 
example of the regional poetry of that 
group. As an encore Mr. Heyward 
read a charming lyric which gave us 
a sidelight on his personality. The 
poem ended thus: 
“When we grow older, sadder, colder, 
We will remember your head and my 
shoulder.” 
Having seen Mrs. Heyward, we can 
easily understand what an inspiring 
thought this must be. 


PAUL BLANSHARD TO LECTURE 


AT AGNES SCOTT, FEB- 
RUARY 10. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


azine articles. He has been to Eu- 
rope twice during the last three years 
studying the British Labor Movement 
and the Italian Fascisti. 

As field secretary of the League for 
Industrial Democracy, Mr. Blanshard 
visited and addressed some eighty-five 
colleges and universities in the states 
last year, and spoke before many con- 
ferences, open forums, and labor 
groups with marked success, 

Classes in Sociology and Economics 
will be given the opportunity to meet 
Mr. Blanshard at afternoon tea, Tues- 
day, at which Miss Hearon and Miss 
Davis will be hostesses in honor of the 
visitor. 


it was a most successful one. If she 
ever tires of writing plays, she might 
easily go in for public speaking. Ag- 
nes Scott was delighted to have Mrs. 
Heyward make her first speech at the 
college. 


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KATHLEEN HAWKINS’ MOAN. 
“He doesn’t love me any more” 

The dear girl cried in great alarm, 
‘He doesn’t love me any more 

Because you see, he broke his arm.” 


@ Ambitious Author: “Hurrah, five 
dollars for my latest story.” 


Friend: “Who from?” 
Writer: “The express company. 
They lost it.” 


He (teaching her to drive): “In 
case of emergency, the first thing 
you want to do is to put on the brake.” 

Rosa McMichael: “Why, I thought 
it came with the car.” 


K. K. Shine (in Nall’s): “Give me 
a pink tablet.” 

Mr. Nall: “Are you ill?” 

K. K. Shine: “No, I want to write 
my mother.” 


He: “Do you suppose you could 
find me a date for tonight?” 


She: “Well, I guess I can dig up 
some girl.” 
He: “Oh, don’t bother. I don’t 


want a dead one.” 


“Are you 
manded the 
class, 

“No,” came the answer in chorus, 

“Well,” insisted the professor, 
“what else is there in the room to 
laugh at?” 


laughing at me?” de- 
irate professor of his 


Dr. Good: “Well, and how did you 
find yourself this morning?” 

Dumb: “Oh, I just opened my eyes, 
and there I was.” 


Poetic License. 
“My roommate takes my toothpaste, 
My blouses and my ties, 
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Regardless of my sighs. 
She even took my beau away 
(It made my blood just boil), 
I hope she comes in late at night 
And takes my castor oil.” 


Saying of Solomon. 
“Tt’s a poor milliner who can’t trim 
a college girl.” 


Our idea of an optimist is one who 
believes all he reads in the newspaper, 


including the ads. 


Tart: “Young lady, this check came 
back marked ‘no funds’.” 

Dart: “That’s funny; they said 
they had $1,000,000 on deposit.” 


He: ‘I am sorry I stepped on your 
foot; I hope it didn’t hurt.” 

She: “Oh, that’s all right; it hurt 
the first few times, but it’s numb now. 


Evelyn: “Something is preying on 
Mary France’s mind.” 
Margaret G.: “Don’t worry; it will 


die of starvation.” 


MISS DAVIS ATTENDS CONVEN- 
TION AT ROME, GA. 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


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hoped that Miss Ely will come to 
speak to the college community in the 
near future. 


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If you are strolling down the hall, 
or across the campus and see an un- 
familiar face, just remember that we 
have the Georgia Student Volunteer 
Conference as our guests this week 
end and speak heartily. We want 
every guest to feel that the sudents 
are extending a warm personal wel- 
each girl on the campussible unless 
each girl on the campus does her part. 

Many girls will be called on to 
take our guests to meals, or to help 
entertain them in some way; but this 
does not take the responsibiliy off 
each individual on the campus. We 
can only make them feel at home by 
visiting them in their rooms, and by 
friendly words and smiles when we 
meet them on the campus. 

Recently we have had Miss Lind- 
say from Bryn Mawr Summer School 
for Industrial Girls, visiting in At- 
lanta and on the campus. She has 
been in this part of the country re- 
cruiting girls for Bryn Mawr Summer 
School, which is a summer school for 
industrial girls, held at Bryn Mawr 
every summer. The only requirement 
for entrance is a knowledge of Eng- 
lish, and a good recommendation. 


There are courses offered in every- 
thing from economics to English lit- 
erature; and the students are recruit- 
ed from all parts of the country and 


THE Four 


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Lai Rp- SCHOBER 


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[Day Student News| 


Listen, if you will, and you may hear 

The rollicking tale of the day stu- 
dents dear; 

Be they tall or short or sombre or 
gay, 

You must admit they each have their 

way! 

Always praises for Mary Lynes do 
ring— 

Now she is sporting a new diamond 
ring! 

And now her name will soon not be 

The same—reason, matrimony. 

Did you see Ruth Guffin’s exciting 
phone call? 

She says it’s from some one who for 
Blanche did fall. 

But Blanche is away and Ruth is 
here— 


all nationalities. 

It is hoped that the Atlanta Y. W. 
Cc. A. will be able to send a student 
this coming summer, so the student 
industrial commission is sponsoring 
a Bryn Mawr progra mat the Y. W. C. 
A. Friday, February 20, Miss Davis 
is to tell something of her experience 
at Bryn Mawr; and there is to be a 
stunt illustrating life there. All stu- 
dents who are interested have a cor- 
dial invitation to attend the meeting. 
Just hand in your name to Eugenia 
Thompson, 25 Rebekah. 

Now don’t say that’s a novel idea! 


MUSE’S 


“The Style Center of the South” 
Walton :: Broad 


Peachtree :: 


| Alex Powell has at last returned to 
her house— 

The fire was caused by a wayward 
mouse. 

And she at the Terrace has been stay- 
ing 

Combining a little work with very 
much playing. 

On Sunday eve at Mary Smith’s home 


All the Emory frats of Sigma Pi did 
come; 

She now with added vivacity is all 
a-glowing 

Because of the good lines they vied 
in showing. 


If you want a new hair raising thrill 

Let M. Strouss tell of her wreck, if 
she will. 

But she was not entirely shattered 

Anyway with the “Shadow” naught 
else mattered. 

E. Chapman’s recklessness 
really be known 

How by her a dollar away was thrown 

Were it not for Angelica’s honesty 

Poor Elizabeth might have been ter- 
ribly hungry. 

With Margaret Rogers you will all 
delight, 

For she is not in such a ticklish 
plight, 

Her hours of gym have decreased in 
number » 

And now she has more periods for 
slumber. : 

Perhaps now you too are tired 

And if I don’t stop soon I may be 
fired. 


should 


Mr. Blanshard Speaks 
To College 


“Labor and the College Student” 
Subject 


If anyone went to the lecture of 


of the League for Industrial Democ- 
racy, expecting to hear a radical dis- 
course advocating Bolshevism or 
some such doctrine, she was greatly 
disappointed. The subject of the lec- 
ture was “The Challenge of Labor to 
the College Student,” and Mr. Blan- 
shard presented this challenge to us 
very convincingly. As he has been 
closely associated with laborers—he 
entered their ranks as a worker in a 
clothing factory, Mr. Blanshard thor- 
oughly understands their viewpoint, 
and ably presented it to us. 

There are three demands which 
the laborer is now making. He wants 
better wages in order to satisfy his 
‘human needs. The press often car- 
ries feature stories of the excessive- 


out indicating that the trades which 
receive them do not have steady em- 
ployment, and without showing that 
expenses are correspondingly high. 
Since the emphasis in business cir- 
eles has been placed on high profits 
for the capitalist instead of on dis- 
tribution of the income, the laboring 
class has been forced to eke out a 
mere existence, to the degredation 
of its personality and the weakening 
of our nation. 

Another demand made by the 
workers is shorter hours. This is 
caused by the necessity of getting 
away from the monotony of the ma- 
chine as much as the need of rest 
and recreation after work. Since the 
division of labor has made of many 
9 wage-earners mere machine-tenders, 

| with a- single meehanical.task to be 
performed incessantly at the ma- 
chine pace, shorter hours are becom- 
ing more and more necessary for the 
well-being of our workers. 

The third demand made by the 
workers is the most important and 
fundamental of all. It is for more 
control in industry. The system 
which allows the investor of capital 
jn a business full control but gives 
none to the investors of their lives 
is apparently unfair, The workers 
do not wish to turn the world upside 
down, but merely to secure a more 
j (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) 


Miss Hearon and Miss 
Daves Give Tea For 
Mr. Blanshard 


Miss Hearon and Miss Davis were 
joint hostesses at a very delightful 
tea given in the Alumnae House Tues- 
day afternoon, in honor of Mr. Paul 
Blanshard, who spoke to the college 
community Tuesday evening. Among 
those invited to meet Mr. Blanshard 
were the History and Sociology and 
Economics majors. : 

Mr. Blanshard proved to be quite 
an interesting and entertaining con- 
versationalist and gave evidence of 
his patience and intelligence as he 
answered the many questions asked 
of him. After everyone had enjoyed 
delicious tea and sandwiches and the 
tea things had been dispensed with, 
the party followed Miss Davis’s sug- 
gestion to be seated. This necessi- 
tated many of the guests sitting on 
the floor, and created an atmosphere 
of informality which contributed much 
‘to the enjoyment of the afternoon. 

The entertainment took the form of 
a discussion group—though Mr, Blan- 
shard did most of the discussing. Ev- 
‘eryone went away with a clearer con- 
ception of the conditions ani need of 
‘American Labor and the aim, of So- 
‘eialism in ameliorating these condi- 
tions. 


Mr. Paul Blanshard, representative j 


ly high wages paid to laborers, with- | 


Miss Ann Stephens 
Speaks ; at Chapel 


Vocational Guidance Her 
Theme 


Miss Ann Stephens’ talk at chapel, 
February 12, coming right after the 
announcement of the formation of our 
Campus Bureau of Vocational Infor- 
mation, was most interesting and 
helpful. 

Miss Stephens stated that it was 
very encouraging and yet unusual for 
the students themselves to be suffi- 
ciently interested in Vocational In- 
formation to form a bureau. Such an 
establishment is, as a rule, left to the 
| faculty. 

Individual vocational decisions pro- 
gress through three stages. The first, 
the one that demands most careful 
attention, is the Selection Stage. Al- 
most every college girl has the desire 
to do something. That is usually the 
reason she is in college. With col- 
| lege training, she has over three hun- 
dred occupations from which to 
choose. Miss Stephens compared the 
college girl to a cross-word puzzle. 
The spaces are her native ability, and 
must be filled in by vocational decis- 
ions made just as carefully with re- 
gard to her own nature and desires, 
as the words of the puzzle are insert- 
ed with regard to the other words 
they affect. The value of filling in 
the vocational spaces symmetrically 
can not be overestimated. 

After choosing one’s vocation, prep- 
aration must be the next decision. 
Definite training for one’s definite 
type of work must then be pursued, 
In order that as much time as pos- 
sible may be given to the definite 
preparation, a choice should be made 
early in the college career. 

Getting a position naturally follows 
preparation.. Graduates must be will- 
ing, in first starting out, to take, with 
small pay, almost any position which 
will ultimately serve their purpose. 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) 


Miss Houghton Speaks 
At Chapel On 
Vacations 


Many Positions Now Open To 
Women 


This is the season of the year when 
Seniors are selecting their future vo- 
cations and Sophomores are choking 
their major subjects, with a bigger 
aim in view than the prized “sheep- 
skin.” Of course the Juniors and 
Freshmen have no such weighty prob- 
lems to be solved immediately; how- 
ever, they, too, have a keen interest 
for the broader life of public service. 

So it is with this situation in mind 
that a series of talks on “The Posi- 
tions Open to College Women” are 
being conducted under the auspices 
of the campus Y. W. C. A. Miss 
Houghton made the first of these 
talks at the chapel hour on Wednes- 
day morning, February 11. 

Miss Houghton is connected with 
the Southern College Placement Bu- 
reau of the Southern Woman’s Edu- 
cational Alliance, which has head- 
quarters in Atlanta. She, therefore, 


was able to give us direct informa- 
tion concerning the vocational situa- 
tion for women in our own immedi- 
ate district. She said that there are 
five hundred professions and occupa- 
tions open to southern college gradu- 
ates. These were listed under thirty 
different fields. And it does seem as 
if each of us might find the work 
we wish to do after all. 

Miss Houghton read us several per- 
sonal letters from prominent business 
and professional women. These were 
very inspiring; and they gave us in- 
sight into personal characteristics 
which have always led to success. 

Miss Houghton’s talk gave great 
impetus to the campaign being 
launched for the choice of a vocation. 


Student Volunteers 
Hold Conference 
At Agnes Scott 


Dean Johnston, Dr. Smart, Dr. 
Manget and Others Speak 


Agnes Scott feels that it was a 
great privilege and blessing to have 
the Student Volunteers hold their 
conference on her campus last week. 


The conference began with a meeting 
in the chapel at eight o’clock Friday 
evening, February 13, and had its last 
session on Sunday evening. A large 
number of delegates from various col- 
leges throughout the state was in at- 
tendance, and our own Agnes Scott 
was well represented. 

The purpose of this conference was 
to bring together the Student Vol- 
unteers and other Christian students 
of Georgia, where they could con- 
sider their personal relation to God 
and to the Foreign Missionary enter- 
prise and the responsibility of shar- 
ing such a vision with other students. 
The success of the conference tended 
towards the aim of the Student Vol- 
unteers, “the evangelization of the 
world in this generation.” The con- 
ference throughout its entire session 
was whole-souled in spirit and power- 
ful in inspiration. 

On Friday evening at seven o’clock, 
a reception was given for the dele- 
gates by the students and faculty of 
the college in the lobby of Rebekah 
Scott Hall. After the meetings on 
Saturday afternoon the delegates 
were entertained at a delightful social 
at the Presbyterian Church in De- 
catur. i 

At eight o’clock, Friday night, Rev- 
erend Thomas H. Johnston, Dean of 
St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta, 
spoke to the delegates about the pur- 
pose and aims of the Student Volun- 
teers. The gist of his discourse was 
that Christ alone can save the world, 
but Christ cannot save the world 
alone. At nine on Saturday morning, 
Dr. M. A. Smart, Professor of The- 
ology at Emory University, spoke on 
what we believe about God. He clear- 
ly showed that “no man hath seen the 
Father at any time save the Son and 
him to whom the Son hath revealed 
Him.” Dr. Isaac Fisher, Professor 
of Fiske University at Nashville, Ten- 
nessee, showed in his talk that the 
black and white races are heirs and 
joint heirs with Christ. Dr. Fred 
Manget, Methodist Missionary to 
China, told of the needs of that 
ancient land, and in his talk revealed 
the qualifications of a real mission- 
ary. At the afternoon session on Sat- 
urday, Dr. Smart made an address on 
what we believe about the kingdom 
of heaven, and Miss Katherine Lump- 
kin, National Secretary of the Y. W. 
C. A., also gave a talk. After the 
speeches the delegates who are Stu- 
dent Volunteers held a business meet- 
ing and elected for next year the fol- 
lowing officers: 

Mr. G. C. Baker, Emory University, 
President. 

Mr. John Wright, University of 
Georgia, Vice-President. 

Miss Mary Heath, Agnes Scott, Sec- 


retary. 

Miss Irma Sigler, G. S. C. W.,, 
Treasurer, 

Mr. Bruce Swain, Emory Univer- 


sity, Editor. 


Miss Miriam Spruell, LaGrange 
College, Out-of-College Volunteer 
Secretary. 

The principal speaker Saturday 


night was Dr. Manget, who told of the 
terrible conditions which prevail in 
China today, and flung out the chal- 
lenge to service called forth by such 
a great need, At the Sunday morn- 
ing meetings, Miss Mary Goodrich, 
of Atlanta, led the devotional; Mr. 
Jimmy Thoroughman made a report 
on the Washington Conference; Miss 
Lillie O. Lathrop, Presbyterian Mis- 
sionary to Korea, gave an address 
Sunday afternoon. Dr. Smart led the 
devotional; Mr. John Rassmussen 
spoke on “The Commitment of Life”; 
discussion groups were held. The Sun- 
day night meeting closed the con- 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Alumnae Entertain 
Seniors At 
Valentine Tea 


Past and Future of the Alumnae 
Progress Told 


The Agnes Scott Alumnae, ever ac- 
tive promoters of A. S. C. spirit that 
they are, entertained the Senior Class 
at a lovely Valentine tea, given in 
the Alumnae House last Thursday 
afternoon. In the receiving line were 
Mrs. Donaldson, president of the 
Alumnae Association, and Miss Nell 
Buchanan, secretary and treasurer. 
Mrs. Donaldson ‘welcomed the class of 
’25 into the ranks of the Alumnae, and 
then introduced Miss Alexander, who 
sketched the history of the Alumnae 
Association. Beginning at the close 
of the fifth year of the college’s ex- 
istence, the Alumnae Association has 
made marvelous progress. In 1917, 
under the guidance of Miss Mary Wal. 
ler Kirk, ’11, it was reorganized and 
put on its feet, and from that year its 
activity has been increasing in build- 
ing a greater Agnes Scott. Follow- 
ing Miss Kirk in the presidency have 
been Mrs. Dieckmann, Mrs. Harold 
Wey and Mrs. Donaldson, who serves 
her term at present. Miss Nell Bu- 
chanan, in her usual charming man- 
ner, unfolded the present cativities of 
the association and its aspirations for 
the future. The Alumnae own and 
manage the Anna Young Alumnae 
House, which contains, as we all know 
through experience, a tea-room, din- 
ing-room, kitchen, parlor, bed-rooms 
for Alumnae visitors, and office of 
the secretary. Among the duties of 
the secretary is gathering statistics 
on the present occupations of Alum- 
nae, 

The Association publishes a bulle- 
tin, the Alumnae Quarterly. It main- 
tains a scholarship and loans here, 
and is subdivided into committees for 
helping A. S. C., such as the commit- 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 4) 


Mrs. C. E. Harman 
Elected To Board of 
Trustees in 1917 


| Daughter of Founder of Agnes 
Scott, Also Former Student 


Mrs. ©, EZ. Harman is one of the 
most modest members of our board of 
trustees. She says that she has hardly 


had any chance to develop individu- 
ality of her She was first 
known as Colonel Scott’s daughter, 
then as Mr. Charlie Harman’s wife, 
and later as Rebecca Harman’s moth- 
er; all of which statements show that 
she does not know what people really 
think of Mrs. Harman herself. 


own, 


Before her marriage, Mrs. Harman 
was Miss Bessie Scott, the youngest 
daughter of Colonel George Washing- 
ton Scott, the founder of our college. 
She attended Agnes Scott when it 
was an institute and made a good 
record in her work particularly in 
English and History. 

Before her marriage she traveled 
extensively; since, she has been a val- 
uable worker in church circles and in 
community betterment. She is a 
member of North Avenue Presby- 
terian Church. Her interest in Agnes 
Seott and her activity in the college 
was occasioned by her election to 
membership of its board of trustees 
in 1917. Since that time she has 
served as a member of the commit- 
tee on buildings and grounds, and has 
been one of the most effective mem- 
bers of the board of trustees. 

Mrs. Harman has taken special in- 
terest in the education of girls,.and 
has raised money for the entire sup- 
port and education of one of the Ag- 
nes Scott girls. One of the most. in- 
teresting things about Mrs. Harman 
is her reputation among all who 
know her as a wonderful home-maker 
and mother. 


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Vol. X AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1925 No. 16 


Sophomore Sisters 
Chosen 


Valentine’s Day Brings Delight 
To Juniors and Freshmen 


On Valentine’s Day there was a 
whole sack of Agnes Scott private 
mail, for each Junior asked a Fresh- 
man to be her Sophomore sister for 
the coming year. Such squeals of de- 
light, parties, and excitement as filled 
the day. The tea room was ecrowd- 
de with gay parties; everywhere the 
new “sisters” were celebrating the 
day. Indeed, their excitement almost 
obscured the quieter rejoicings of the 
old “sisters.” 

But the old sisters can wish noth- 
ing better for this year’s sisters than 
the happiness, good times, and com- 
radeship they are enjoying now. 

The new sisters are as following: 


JUNIOR. FRESHMAN. 
Helen Bates: ...........-...-. Vera Kamper 
Louise Bennett................ Caroline Essig 
Eleanor Berger............ Hermenia Weill 
Lois Bolles AnnaBAoLS 
Lois Bollesscziscic<scccconscoo8et Anna Knight 


Leone Bowers......Ellot Mary MecLellon 
Mary T. Brown........Bayliss McShane 
Virginia Browning...... Leonora Weems 
Margaret. Bullicicis:..cccsccsst.c. ccc 
axteaaestie Nannie Graham Sanders 
Marguerite Burnley..Marguerite Lake 
Elizabeth Allen................Ellen Stevens 
Edythe Carpenter, Katherine Rickards 
Elizabeth Chapman..........Martha Riley 
Isabelle Clarke.............. Kalman Twins 
Verna Glan 5 cncc-os.casen Grace Ball 
Edythe Coleman........Georgia Watson 


Frances Cooper-......:-..:.....--. Emily Cope 
Billy Cowan....... ...Elizabeth Coie 
Clarkie Davis................ Louise Geeslin 
Margaret Debele.........Edna Ackerman 
Louisa. Duls...........-<<.- Mary Shepherd 
Ellen Fain........ -Mary Mackey Hough 
Dora: Merrellin sets se Sara White 
Mary Freemany.............. Virginia Skeen 
Blise Gay.-......../ Sine soar eae Edith Brows 
Catherine Graeber.......... Eloise Gaines 


Elizabeth Gregory.....Muriel Bultman 
Juanita Greer.............. Catherine Guller 
Eleanor Gresham........-.-..- Jean Lamont 


Virginia Grimes............ Nell Hillhouse 
Mary E, Hammond.........Eliza Ramey 
Blanche Haslam.......... Eleanor Bennett 
Helena Hermance Jo Huntley 
Charlotte Higgs.............. Huda Dement 
Virginia Hollingsworth.................- 

REPS oe er Tapa Evelyn Barnett 
Hazel Huff.............-.....-Patricia Collins 


(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) 


Miss Alexander Gives 
Set of Silver To 
Alumnae House 


We, who are yet students, and have 
not received the coveted diploma, are 
always glad to know that Agnes 
Scott’s graduates have not forgotten 
her—and, indeed, how could they? 
Among the many and frequent tok- 
ens of interest in her welfare and 
progress, is the gift, by Miss Alex- 
ander, of a. set of silver to the Alum- 
nae House. 

Miss Alexander, who is a member 
of the class of 1899, is beloved by us 
as an Alumna and as a member of 
the faculty, and her generous gift is 
appreciated, not only by the Alumnae 
but by the student body. 

The set consists of a half dozen 
knives, forks, teaspoons, salad forks, 
ice tea spoons, and dessert forks, in 
a dainty pattern with a distinctive 
design. They are given especially to 
the private dining room for use at 
parties and dinners. Miss Alexander 
selected this design, since it was im- 
possible to have the silver engraved 
with the monogram of the House— 
an entwinement of the initials of the 
words “Anna Young Alumnae House”, 
and she wanted the silver to be mark- 
ed with some distinctive pattern. 

Miss Alexander’s thoughtfulness 
and generosity has filled one of the 
Alumnae House’s greatest needs, and 
has given it a lovely silver service of 
which every Agnes Scott graduate 
and student may be proud. Her Alma 
Mater thanks her most. sincerely for 
her gift. 


Che Agonistic 


(Published Weekly Except During the Holidays and Examination Periods) 


Subscription Price, $1.75 per year in advance. 
Single Copies, 5 cents. 


Published weekly. Owned and published by the Students of 
Agnes Scott College. 


Entered as Second Class Matter. 
STAFF OF AGONISTIC. 


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Emily Jones 
Elizabeth Henderson 
Clarkie Davis 
Emily Spivey 
Eugenia Thompson 
Mary Palmer Caldwell 
Carolyn Smith 
Sarah Smith 


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Y. W. C. A. Editor 


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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


Nellie Richardson, ’26 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 
Janet McDonald, ’28 
Caroline Essig, ’28 
Mary Riviere, ’28 


Miriam Preston, ’27 
Julia Pope, *25 

Lillian Middlebrooks, °25 
Clyde Passmore, ’25 
Emily Ehrlich, ’27 


Not many years ago it was an easy matter for a college 
student to select her vocation, for there were only two or three 
vocations open to women. Today, however, there are five hundred 
different branches of professions open to women and the choice 
is not so easy. 

To meet these changing conditions and to enable the student 
to find definite information concerning the professions, the col- 
leges are opening bureaus for vocational guidance. In past years 
there was a definite need for Agnes Scott graduates in the teach- 
ing profession, and Agnes Scott helped her students to find po- 
sitions in that field. Now, though there is still a need in this 
profession, there are many other professions and Agnes Scott 
girls are needed as pioneers. To meet this need the Y. W. C. A. 
has brought to us this year several speakers on vocational guid- 
ance. They have given to the students definite information about 
vocations open to women. These range from the professional lines 
of law and medicine to advertising, accounting, politics, interior 
decoration, library work, literary work and laboratory work, in 
fact every line of work. 

Knowing that these are open to women, the next step is to 
learn something about them, the requirements, the colleges for 
further study, if any is needed, the personal characteristics 
needed in each line, the chances for success. This second step 
the Bureau for Vocational Guidance seeks to answer. There will 
be located in the sociology room of the library this information 
as soon as it can be obtained and office hours for consultations 
will be held. 

This is the newest and one of the most interesting things Agnes 
Scott has begun this year. We believe that it will mean much 


to us as students in giving us a definite goal, and much to Agnes 
Scott as her students branch out into many professions and be- 
come pioneers in the South in all branches of the business and 
professional world open to women. 

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SENIORS ENTERTAIN SOPHO-| JUNIORS ELECT OFFICERS FOR 


MORE SISTERS AT VAL- COMMENCEMENT 
ENTINE PARTY 


On Saturday night, February 14, a 
few Senior sisters gave a perfectly 
beautiful party for their Sophomore 
sisters. In honor of the first anni- 
versary of their choosing their sisters, 
these girls gave a bridge and mah- 
jongg party. The color scheme of 
red and white was appropriately car- 
ried out in the decorations and re- 
freshments. The rooms, on second 
floor of Rebekah, were decorated with 
red and white streamers, and in one 
of the rooms a hoop hung from the 
ceiling laden with a variety of sou- 
venirs. The ice cream and cake had 
little red hearts on them, so well car- 
rying out the Valentine spirit. 

Those invited were: Isabelle Fer- 
guson, Mary Martha Lybrook, Mar- 
garet Hyatt, Virginia Sevier, Fran- 
ces Lincoln, Elizabeth Clark, Dorothy 
Keith, Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Ann 
McKay, Sarah Shields, Georgia May 
Little, Nanny Lou Knight, Ella Smith, 
Marcia Green, Ellen Walker, Louisa 
Howard, Elizabeth Griffin, Mary Da- 
vis, Martha Lynn Manley, Peggy 
Rankin. 


There always seems to be a great 
deal of excitement at Agnes Scott 
during the month of February. It 
might be because mid-term examina- 
tions are over and it might be be- 
cause spring holidays are in the near 
future. But, whatever the cause is, 
exciting things are happening, such 
as Silhouette leections (the votes 
have been counted, but the results 
are not to be disclosed until the 
publication of the annual) George 
Washington Scott’s birthday is to be 
celebrated on the twenty-first, and 
Senior election for the commence- 
ment exercises have taken place. At 
the meeting of the Senior Class, the 
following girls were eleeted: Georgia 
May Little, historian; Ellen Walker, 
prophet; Elizabeth Cheatham, poet, 
and Emily Spivey, testator. A great 
deal of honor accompanies these po- 
sitions, and the class of 1925 is to be 


congratulated upon the election of 
these worthy girls. 


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THE 


PARTY ON TOUR OF EUROPE 
THIS SUMMER 


Te Visit England, Holland, Scotland, 
France, Italy, Switzerland, 
Ete. 


A gondola and the Grand Canal, 
as the sun sinks to rest, snow-cov- 
ered Mont Blane, the Castle of Chil- 
lon, Monte Carlo, Florence, West- 
minster Abbey, Notre Dame, Strass- 
bourg, da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” 
Oxford—-who of us mortals is not 
blessed with that glorious malady, 
the wanderlust ? 

And lo, here is a chance to satisfy 
it. Miss Gooch, under the business 
managemént of Temple Tours, Bos- 
ton, Mass., will conduct a party on 
a tour of Europe this very summer. 
The trip will last fifty-seven days, 
and will include England, Scotland, 
Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, 
France, and the Rhine. The party 
sails from New York on June 20, and 
arrives in Liverpool June 28, 

Then comes London, the world’s 
largest city, with visits to St, Paul's, 
British Museum, the Tower, ete:, and 
a motor trip to Stratford-on-Avon, 
Kenilworth, Oxford, ete. Thence the 
party goes to Brussels, the field of 
Waterloo, and on to Antwerp. July 
10 finds them in Strassbourg and the 
15th in Geneva, the seat of the 
League of Nations. The tour of 
Italy, which now follows, will be un- 
usually interesting, including as it 
does, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, 
Genoa and Nice, the gay capital of 
the Riviera, paradise of pleasure- 
loving tourists. A trip to France, 
especially Paris, will close the two- 
months’ tour. 

Miss Gooch fis well qualified to 
conduct a tour of Europe, having 
been there many times herself and 
being quite familiar with the places 
to be visited. Last year she guided a 
party of Agnes Scott Alumnae, and 
this year she wants to take students. 
The price is $945, including all ex- 
penses, except passport expense, ex- 
tras, as tips, deck chairs and rugs 
and personal expenses, as laundry, 
postage, purchases. Miss Gooch will 
be glad to consult with any one who 
is interested in the proposition. 


CLASSICAL CLUB PLANS TO 
AID GREEK REFUGEES 


We sometimes feel that since the 
war there have been so many calls 
on our generosity that we cannot re- 
spond any more. But the Classical 
Club is preparing to present to the 
student body a cause in which we 
are all truly interested, and which 
we all would like to help. 

This cause is that of the relief of 
the one million, five hundred thou- 
sand Greeks who have been driven 
from the war ravaged districts of 
Asia minor to Athens and Corinth 
and the surrounding country. Since 
the total population of all Greece is 
only five millions, this tremendous 
influx of refugees has been a terri- 
ble strain on its resources. The 
American Friends of Greece, an or- 
ganization of all those in this coun- 
try who are interested in classical 
education, is attempting to relieve 
the strain on the land which has 
made such magnificent contributions 
to the art, literature, and philosophy 
of the world. They have built rude 
homes for the exiles, and workshops 
in which the women, weaving their 
own cloth, make luncheon sets, bags 
and many other aticles, which the 
association sells in this country, The 
proceeds from the sales go solely to 
bettering the conditions of the ref- 
ugees. 

The Classical Club plans to aid 
this work, by having in the near fu- 
ture, a sale of some of these ar- 
ticles. The matter has not been fi- 
nally decided by the club, but they 


AGONISTIC 


MISS’ GOOCH WILL CONDUCT| INTERNATIONAL 


RELATIONS 
CLUB TO SEND DELEGATES 
TO CONFERENCE 


There will be a regular meeting 
of the Southern Student Conference 
on International Relations in Spar- 
tanburg, S. C., at Converse and 
Wofford colleges, during February 
26-28. The wishes to 
prove to American that 
Southern students are interested in 
international affairs, and that they 
ean hold a conference that will be 
a model to students in other sections 
of the country. Such speakers as 
Hon. Theodore Marbury, of Balti- 
more; Dr. Williams, of the Univer- 
sity of Virginia; Dr. A. M. Arnett, 
of North Carolina College for Wom- 
en; Dr. Hamilton, of the University 
of North Carolina, and Dr. Wallace, 
of Wofford College, are to address 
to hold round 
table discussions, and open forum 
meetings. Every college the 
South is urged to send two students 


conference 
colleges 


the conference and 
in 


and one faculty member as_dele- 
gates. Additional representatives are 
welcomed, but only the delegates 
can vote on any question. 

The Agnes Scott International 
Relations Club elected Virginia 
Browning, Dorothy Keith and Miss 


Hearon as delegates, but only Vir- 


ginia and Miss Hearon will be able 


to go. Virginia has been asked to 
read a paper at one of the round ta- 


ble groups. 


GLEE CLUB HAS UNUSUALLY 
GOOD RECITAL 


Last Wednesday evening, at the 
weekly recital, the Glee Club had 
an unusually good program. The 
program was the largest which has 
yet been given this season. 

Mr. Johnson explained ‘that after 
working on notes all fall, most of 
the pupils have about succeeded in 
getting their yoices into good shape. 
This spring will be devoted to build- 
ing good repertoires for each pupil. 

There was a large crowd present 
and it showed its appreciation of 
Mrs, Rankin’s and Mrs. Daniel’s 
songs especially. Mrs. Rankin sang 
Pearl Curran’s “Sonny Boy,” and 
“To the Sun.” Mrs. Daniel also sang 
a Curran song, “Nocturne.” The Glee 
Club enjoyed these numbers very 
much. 

There has been some misunder- 
standing about these weekly recitals. 
Many of the girls have wanted to 
come but have thought the recitals 
open only to Glee Club members. 
However, the public is cordially in- 
vited to attend these informal pro- 
grams every Wednesday evening, 
immediately after supper in the 
Propylean Hall. 


are making a selection of articles 
which they think will appeal most to 
the college girl. If your mother or 
older sister has a birthday next 
month, buy her a present at the 
Classical Club’s sale. You will be 
helping a needy cause and giving a 
gift which will delight the recipient. 


Intercollegiate 


News 


According to reports, in 1930 the 
only expense of a college education 
will be the purchase of a radio set, 
for radio sets have already been es- 
tablished in Germany, and in the 
states of Georgia and Kansas. A ra- 
dio university has recently started in 
Berlin. Its faculty is to be composed 
of the most famous scholars of Ger- 
It is to be called Hans Bre- 
don School, in honor of State Secre- 
tary, Dr. Bredon, who was very in- 

the radio 
It has been 
formally opened in the presence of 
representatives of the German gov- 
ernment, as well as of the University 
of Berlin and several schools of high 
standing. 


many. 


fluential in spreading 


throughout Germany. 


Kansas State Agricultural College 
has established a radio college which 
will broadcast forty college expansion 
courses during the eight 
months. 

Mercer University, Macon, Ga., will 
offer a series of four college courses. 
Pupils in the radio classes will be 
asked to send in their names, reports 
on home assignments, and requests 
for additional courses. 


next 


Harvard has settled a controversy 
and devised a method whereby stu- 
dent members of the Harvard Union 
can hear in their hall any speaker 
whom they wish, regardless of faith, 
convictions, color, or social standing, 
su long as he is aliowed to speak in 
public by the United States Govern- 
ment. Any of the members can pro- 
pose the names to their undergrad- 
uate union committee, which makes 
the proposals to the new Speakers’ 
Committee. If the Undergraduate 
Committee doubts the general inter- 
est, it can request that the sponsors 
show fifty signatures on their peti- 
tion, which then is voted on by the 
Union.—New Student. 

— 

Too little sleep, too much play, not 
enough study, too much leisure, fast 
eating and diversified thinking are 
factors that devitalize students and 
are responsible for the “delinquent 
groups” found in every university, 
according to a report made public by 
Professor Howard of Northwestern 
University. 


Freshmen who disobey rules at Col- 
orado University are plunged into the 
cold water of Varsity Lake, the tem- 
perature of which ranges from 30 to 
85 degrees. 


A movement to restrict or prohibit 
the use of automobiles by students, 
which may become national, has been 
started at Indiana University. The 
faculty there believes that the use of 
automobiles in college, especially by 
co-eds, is detrimental to the pursuit of 
We understand that 
there is considerable disagreement 
with this view among students. 


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AGONISTIC 


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Dear Giddy:— 

Isn't life grand, Giddy? And aren’t 
Juniors the sweetest people alive— 
and specially one—she’s going to be 
my Senior sister. 

I was so surprised Saturday morn- 
ing when I got the most adorable 
Valentine you ever saw and it had on 
it about being her Sophomore sister 
and I nearly cried, I was so happy. 
Giddy, what do you reckon all the 
people do who don’t have Senior sis- 
ters? They miss half the fun in life, 
I know. You know how green I was 
last fall don’t you? Well, I know ev- 
erything now—at least I’m beginning 
to and I’m really sophisticated. I feel 
like I sure nuff belong. 

But there’s one thing I don’t know, 
Giddy. What's a “vegetable” or “veg- 
etative”’ person? I heard some girls 
talking the other day and they’d just 
come from Miss Dexter’s class and 
they laughed and said she made some 
remark about a person being vegeta- 
tive. I was ashamed to ask what it 
meant, but I do want to know. 

Another reason it’s so good to be 
alive is because of birthdays. I wish 
mine would hurry and come. Down 
here everybody’s lovely to you when 
you have one and give you a party 
an’ everything. I guess though I 
wouldn’t get flowers liké a lot of 
girls do ‘cause there’s no one to send 
them. 

Evelyn Sprinkle had one—a birth- 
day—this week and she got the most 
gorgeous roses you ever saw. There 


were thirteen in the dozen, too. And | 


Nell Buchanan! Why you'd have 
thought the Alumnae house had a 
hot house connected with it—there 
were flowers everywhere. I hate to 
get old though and I am—awfully 
old. Why U’ll be 18 on my next birth- 
day, but they say that some of the 
girls here are actually twenty! 
Imagine being that old. I bet they 
have a lot of gray hairs in their 
head. 

I wrote you about Isabel Clarke 
one time didn’t I? Well in chemistry 
the other day she asked just as se- 
rious as you please, “What makes a 
battery wear out when it won't 
bat?” I should think she’d have had 
better sense than that. 

Two girls went over to the tea- 
room the other night and ate a 
whole supper of fried oysters—each 
plate was piled about six inches high 
and they ate every one. I won't 
tell you who they were though be- 
cause it would embarrass them. They 
surely did smell good—the oysters. 

Is it very cold up there, Giddy? 
The other morning all the radiators 
froze here and every room was as 
cold as blue blazes. We didn’t mind 
so much though when they had to 
give us a cut in lab because it was 
so cold. All the gold fish froze, but 
they thawed out later and even some 


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girl’s sweaters froze—at least they 
said they did. Anyway it was awful 
cold and the only way to keep half 
warm was to sit on a radiator which 
wasn’t frozen. 

Oh yes! I was ’bout to forget it. 
Mr. Stukes is the Psychology Pro- 
fessor here and it takes two alarm 
clocks to wake him up every morn- 
ing. He said so the other day. And 
I’m beginning to sleep so soundly 
that it’ll soon take that many and 
more to wake me up—’specially if I 
sit up very late so I must go to bed 
now. 

Always yours, 
AGGIE. 


MR. BLANSHARD DELIGHTS 
AUDIENCE; THE LABOR PROB- 
LEM HIS SUBJECT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


just participation in the control of 
their economic destinies. 

The public, according to Mr. Blan- 
shard, has a right to demand that 
the progress of the laborers be or- 
derly, and that arbitrations be sub- 
stituted for strikes wherever possi- 
ble. That the strike is the horror 
both of the laborer and of the labor 
leader, however, is not generally 
realized. It is the only weapon of 
the wage earners, and is used with 
great reluctance. 

The public has conceded the right 
of the working man for an honest 
day’s pay in return for an honest 
day’s work, but feels that he should 
not receive any more than he has 
earned. But it has not yet applied 
this rule to the capitalist class. 

The platform for labor improve- 
ment was then delineated by Mr. 
Blanshard, and the “collective bar- 
gaining plank” especially empha- 
sized. The laborer should be al- 
lowed to organize and “kick” against 
injustice. Other planks were the 
eight-hour day, minimum wage, and 
protection of leaders against injunc- 
tions during strikes. 

There is at present interest in and 
desire for building a new social or- 
der. Struggle can be prevented by 
the rebuilding of the present indus- 
trial system through granting these 
altogether reasonable demands of 
the laborers, The college student 
can be of great assistance in doing 
this, for he has the technical knowl- 
edge necessary. Our colleges should 
not be experimental laboratories, but 
places of preparation for service, in 
answering the human side of the la- 
bor problem. 

Mr. Blanshard so pleased his au- 
dience that Miss Hearon had him re- 
turn to the campus Saturday and 
lecture to her history classes at the 
class hours. He again demonstrated 
his mastery of the subject, and was 
especially interesting on the British 
labor movement, of which he has 
made a thorough study. 


MISS ANN STEPHENS SPEAKS 
AT CHAPEL 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


They must have a willingness to 
learn, and not consider that the col- 
lege diploma means that they know 
all. This period of apprenticeship 
must be served, and the more willing- 
ly and open-mindedly it is served, the 
greater the possibilities for the fu- 
ture, 

Miss Stephens urges that we should 
not fear to enter new fields, and thus 
develop new occupations for women. 
Many occupations for women are 
yearly added to the list, and all have 
been started by some one. Also, un- 
crowded fields offer advantages to 
the enterprising woman. 

There is no reason, Miss Stephens 
ended, why a successful and satisfac- 
tory future should not await an 
earnest college graduate, who has 
systematically chosen her vocation. 


CRITICISMS OF THE 
AURORA 


Mr. DuBose Heyward, it will be 
well remembered, called the Poetry 
Number of our “Aurora”, issued last 
spring, “the best single issue of a col- 
lege magazine that I have ever seen.” 
While we consider this critcism of 
Mr. Heyward the best compliment we 
could receive, yet it is interesting to 
note what others, too, say of our 
magazine. Below are printed two ap- 
preciations of the November “Aurora” 
from college magazines. 

“The Aurora” presents its usual 
well-balanced content of short stories, 
poems, and essays. The editorial on 
the anti-intellectual tendency of our 
generation is striking in its accusa- 
tion and excellent in technique, al- 
though we do not agree with the 
views of the editor. The plot of “His 
Leading Lady” is not complicated but 
the story is well written and, like the 
poetry of the issue, it is rich in color 
and artistic in conception, “The Dra- 
matic in Contemporary English Po- 
etry” is a well-organized study of 
modern poetry, and it contains an in- 
teresting idea which offers the possi- 
bility of further investigation.” 

—The Winthrop Journal, December. 

“The Aurora,” from Agnes Scott 
College, is fortunate in its combina- 
tion of several types of material. The 
poetry was entirely enjoyable, “Kin- 
ship” well deserved the first place 
in the magazine and “Edges of Au- 
tumn” expressed a number of grace- 
ful figures. For a November issue, 
“Prayer” was very appropriate. Two 
such well developed short stories as 
“Kentucky” and “His Leading Lady” 
are seldom found in one college mag- 
azine. The essay on “The Dramatic in 
Contemporary English Poetry” show- 
ed considerable research and compre- 
hensive thinking. We really enjoyed 
the lighter essays best of anything in 
the magazine. “Tree Notches” ex- 
pressed an idea we have often wished 
someone would develop, and “Umbrel- 
las” aroused a sympathetic feeling. 
Of the rest of the contents, “On Being 
a Big Sister” stood apart particularly 
good. We cannot help questioning 
the place of alumnae contributions in 
a magazine published by undergradu- 
ates,” 

—“The Tatler’, 
December. 


Randolph-Macon, 


STUDENT VOLUNTEERS HOLD 
CONFERENCE AT AGNES 
SCcoTrT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


ference. 

The morning watch services 
brought the members of the confer- 
ence together for prayer and fellow- 
ship in the quiet of early day. The 
opportunity for personal interviews 
with the leaders was one of the great- 
est assets of the conference. Time 
was also allotted for denominational 
group meetings and delegation meet- 
ings. 

The spirit of the conference was 
one of love, service, fellowship, and 
high ideals. It gave us a great desire 
to follow in the footsteps of the Mas- 
ter and carry the gospel to the ends 
of the earth. 

“God grant us wisdom in these coming 
days, 

And eyes unsealed, that we clear 

visions see 
Of the new world that He would have 
us build 

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Alumnae News 


On Thursday, February 12, the 
Alumnae entertained the Seniors at a 
lovely tea. 

Marjorie Lowe, '23, visited Agnes 
Seott recently. 

Margaret McConnell] is a kindergar- 
ten teach in the city of 
Asheville, N. C. She is planning to 
take a course at Columbia next year. 

Ruth Virden, *22, “Please 
don’t send me any more of those per- 


schools 


writes, 
sonal blanks asking for 
band’s name. 
T’ll wire you.” 

Goldie Ham, 71 
at Tulane, is now 


my hus- 
As soon as I know 
9, who got her M. D. 
at St. 
Texas, but hopes 


Joseph's 
Infirmary, Houston, 
soon to have her own office. 

Mary Ford, 19, (Mrs. W. J. Ken- 
nerly) is still breathing the college 
atmosphere, her husband being the 
head of the Alabama State College for 
Women, Montevallo, 

Claire Elliot McKay, *19 (Mrs. P. 
W.) says that she went on a wonder- 
ful trip in her car this summer up 
through the Adirondacks to Quebec 
and back through the New England 


States. They stopped to see all the 
big colleges and universities along the 
way, but found none that could touch 
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vocation in which they are inter- 
ested, 


This bureau is to have office hours 
after it has learned from the stu- 
dents just which occupation they 
want to know about and as soon as 
the information can be obtained. 

There will be a vocational library 
in the sociology room in the library, 
and office hours will be held there. 

The committee also hopes to ob- 
tain a form of questionnaire which 
will enable the students to find out 
to a certain extent what work they 
are best fitted for. 

The committee consists of Miss 
Davis, Miss Randolph, Florence Per- 
kins, Marcia Green and Virginia 
Peeler, and they hope to be of the 
most service possible. They enlist 
your cooperation in telling them in 
what vocations you are interested, and 


in using the information when ob- 
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Student Life 
In Germany 


Although it is far from my task 
or intention to tell a fairy tale, al- 
low me to begin with a “There was 
once”, Indeed, there was once a 
eare-free, joyous, over-joyous stu- 
dent life in Germany, Days and 
nights and whole semesters of the 
first academie years of a German 
student passed as an endless celebra- 
tion of freedom, academic freedom, 
and youth. The streets of the small 
old university towns like Tubingen, 
Marburg, Heidelberg and so many 
others echoed and re-echoed the songs 
about students’ glory. The little win- 
dows of the small houses reflected 
the flames of torch-light processions 
in honor of a learned scholar’s jubilee 
or of the newly-elected rector mag- 
nificus. Songs of the wandering stu- 
dents greeted castles and ruins on the 
hills and barges slowly gliding down 
the rivers and streams. The German 
student could, or believed he could, 
afford those splendid years of dolce 
far niente. It was not necessary for 
him to follow a strict program, out- 
lined for him by the faculty, and at- 
tend lectures and seminaries, at least 
not in the first ones of his eight to 
ten semesters of study. or those 
who became members of student cor- 
porations, by their own free will or 
by father’s will, who in his universi- 
ty days had been a member of the 
same corporation, it seemed of far 
greater importance to attend all the 
strictly codified activities of his cor- 
poration, which pretty well filled up 
his days and part of his nights too. 

These corporations are essentially 
pre-war institutions. Their history 
goes in many cases back to pre- 
Napoleonic times, and their rules, 
often to a stranger of a ridiculous 
strictness and pedantry, are every- 
thing else than modern, before all 
their code of behavior towards their 
fellow-students and towns-people and 
their elaborate drinking rules. Most 
conspicuous among them are the 
“combatting and color-wearing”’ cor- 
porations, the so-called “Corps”, “Tur- 
nerschaffen”, etc., which enumeration, 
by the way indicates roughly what 
silly neople in more than one country 
call social standing. Their members 
wear many-colored caps and ribbons 
of the same colors around their 
breasts. Though public opinion and 
the police have tried for a long time 
to suppress duelling, they still have 
their “mensuren”, generally harmless, 
but by no means bloodless, affairs. 
This fighting usually takes place be- 
tween selected members of corpora- 
tions of the same category. There 
is nearly no danger for the life of 
the combatants. They are protected 
by leather armors, bandeges, and 
strong spectacles and expose only 
cheeks and forehead to the long, 
straight sword of the opponent. The 
wounds inflicted are mere slight cuts 
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the whole procedure reminds the an- 
thropologist more than anything else 
of the initiation rites of South Sea 
aborigines where similar cuttings oc- 
cur. The object of this fighting is to 
teach the young man mastership of 
his nerve system and is regarded as 
of no small educational value. Not 
very much of athletic skill is shown 
in these affairs. Far more serious 
than these pre-arranged “mensuren” 
are duels with curved swords, fought 
out to wash off some offense of mostly 
imaginary character, for the “color- 
student” feels easily offended, at least 
when intoxicated. 

These “color-students” claimed to 
be the very core of German student- 
hood and liked to look a bit conde- 
scendingly to the other corporations 
as existed besides their own and 
whose members and varieties were up 
to 1914 and now again as innumerable 
as the states within the Holy Roman 
Empire. Among them are Christian 
fraternities, singing societies, scien- 
tific and athletie organizations, groups 
of the youth movement as the “Wan- 
dervogel” (migrating birds) and the 
big mass of the non-corporated stu- 
dents, all of them much more in con- 
tact with real life of the day and 
less tended to exercise that fine but 
dangerous art in which so many Ger- 
mans are masters, ie., of denying 
reality somehow and speaking about 
“Realpolitik” at the same time. Most 
of these corporations have survived 
the war-time or have been re-founded 
since. Their number and variety has 
even increased since the war. Poli- 
ties have entered the halls of every 
“alma mater’ where they were for- 


bidden before, and every party of 
some importance has its student 
groups. 


After three or four semesters of 
this gay corporation life, which the 
non-corporated students mostly used 
for a general study, for wandering 
and climbing in the mountains, the 
student went as a rule over to anoth- 
er university. Here he sat down to 
real work in seminaries, laboratories, 
infirmaries, and his more or less mod- 
estly furnished room. As an “elder 
semester” he had to specialize his 
work and now became a real pupil of 
his professor before whom he intend- 
ed to pass his examinations, which, 
though far less in number than in 
American universities, were by no 
means easy. The curve of midnight 
oil consumption rose tremendously. 
Sometimes, mostly among the law 
students, the aid of a coach was 
needed in order to help the candidate 
through. 

The war and its revolutionary se- 
quel put an end to this rather care- 


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free existence. The larger part of the 
students returning to the universities 
after their war service, in order to| 
finish or begin their studies, had soon, 
to learn that their parents could no. 
longer send the monthly allowance on 
which to live. Fortunes and incomes 
were wiped out by the depreciation 
of the mark. Need and even hunger 
showed their hideous faces and forced 
many a gifted young man to give 
up his academic plans. Those who 
stayed had to work their own way 
through and had to do it mostly by 
the work of their hands, for there 
was a large over-supply of brain- 
workers and in post-war Germany 
mental work was badiy paid. These 
hard necessities brought forth the 
working student, a type long familiar 
in the Anglo-Saxon countries but un- 
heard of in Germany, as in most 
of the other Continental countries. 

Rapidly founded organizations, oft- 
en helped by foreign funds, furnished 
employment for students on the farms 
during the harvest season, in factories 
and coal and potash mines. Finally 
in the summer semester of 1922, 42 
per cent. of the university students, 
62 per cent. of those studying at tech- 
nical colleges, and 88 per cent. of 
the future mining engineers had be- 
come working students. Self-help or- 
ganizations in nearly all university 
towns, with the Wirtschaftshilfe 
(Students’ Co-operative Economie As- 
sociation) as their center, opened 
dining-rooms, workshops, sale-rooms, 
loan banks, and tried their best to 
bring the working student through 
these years of hardship. It is only 
too obvious that very often their help 
must fall short in face of all the 
prevailing distress. 

As the gloomy picture of these 
times has been painted often enough 
by foreign observers, I may better be 
allowed to point out what the Ger- 
man student gained, and I venture to 
hope, permanently gained, from his 
experience during this time. Though 
perhaps the standard of learning of 
the average student may have gone 
down somewhat beneath pre-war stan- 
dards, he has had a new experience 
which may be judged as outweighing 
this loss, an experience that has 
positively become part of his educa- 
tion. He has been brought into con- 
tact with the life of the workingmen 
in the factory and the mine and on 
the field. 

(TO BE CONTINUED) 


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AGENTS 


Florence Perkins Anne McKay 
Margaret Debele 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


“How did you lose your tooth, son- 
ny?” 
“Shifting gears on a lollypop.” 


It’s the Man Who Pays. 
Ethel: “Did you have the porch 
seat painted yesterday?” 
Father: “Yes; why?” 
Ethel: “Well, Harold and I sat on 
it last night and Harold got paint 
on his trousers,” 


A stranger addressed the farmer 
boy across the fence: 

“Young man, your corn looks kind 
o’ 6yellow.” 

“Yes; that’s the kind we planted.” 

“Don’t look as if you would get 
more than half a crop.” 

“We don’t expect to. The landlord 
gets the other half.” 

Then, after a pause, the man said: 
“Boy, there isn’t much difference be- 
tween you and a fool.” 

“No,” replied the boy; “only the 
fence.” 


Eloping Wife (sobbing): “I’ve just 
had a t-t-telegram from my husband.” 

Her lover (anxiously): “He doesn’t 
want you to go back, does he?” 

“N’no. All he wants to know is 
where I-I left his clean pair of socks, 
the brute!” 


Noah was so opposed to gambling 
on the ark that he sat on the deck all 
day. 


Mr. Dieckmann: “What are 
pauses?” 

One of the brilliant members of 
music appreciation class: “They 


grow on cats.” 


ALUMNAE ENTERTAIN SENIORS 
AT VALENTINE TEA 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


tee on beautifying the grounds. In 
many large high schools the Alumnae 
sponsor the presentation of Agnes 
Scott to high school girls on the an- 
nual “college days.” 

After the talks, Valentine refresh- 
were served, heart-shaped 
sandwiches, tarts, salted almonds, 
frozen punch, red and white mints. 
The party lauded by the Seniors, and 
celebrated in verse by Mr. DuBose 
Heyward, was indeed an auspicious 
occasion. 

Among those present were: Mrs. 
Donaldson, Miss Buchanan, Mrs. 
Griffin, Misses Alexander, Bland, 
Phythian, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin, Mr, 
Holt and the Senior Class. 


ments 


MUSE’S 


FOURTH FLOOR 


(Instructor: “Why does a_ stork 
stand on one foot?” 

Fresh: ‘I'll bite, why does he?” 

Instructor: “If he’d lift the other 
foot, he’d fall down.” 


Shakespeare says: “For courage 
mounteth with oecasion.”—King John, 

But we beg to disagree. How 
about the case of a bashful boy on 
the porch swing—alone?” 


“Sarah looks like a million tonight.” 
“T know but she’s only eighteen.” 


He: “My love cannot be express- 
ed in words.” 


She (eagerly): “Tell me about it.” 


“What would you give for a voice 
like mine?” 
“Chloroform.” 


Where There’s a Will. 
The man got up on the scales to 
weigh, and found that he had fallen 
off. He got up again. 


He (smiting the strings): “This 
harp seems to sing that you love me,” 

Co-Ed: “But, my boy, that’s not 
a harp, it’s a lyre.” 


SOPHOMORE SISTERS CHOSEN 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


Sterling Johnson.............. Ruth Thomas 
Evelyn Kennedy........ Louise Sherfesee 
Mary KnoxX...202.2..2.-.. Louise Girardeau 
BSS (hc ee BU) 3 » eee Re Della Stone 
Nan Lingle.......... ...Adah Knight 
Elizabeth Little...22.00000... Ann Choate 
Helen Clark Martin......Margaret Rice 


Frances McColgan....Nancy Crowthers 
Catherine Moek.......... Louise Thomas 
Elizabeth Moore.....Emily Kingsberty 
Josephine North.............. Irma Malone 


Grace Augusta Ogden.................. 
bein edie sn Mary Belle McCorkey 
Dorothy Owen....Gwendolyn McKinnon 
Virginia Owen.......... Martha Anderson 
Virginia Peeler Josephine Walker 
Florence Perkins 
3 OBE ec Anna Mae McCollum 


Louise Pfeiffer_........... Ruth Epstein 
Katherine Pitman.Mary Cunningham 
Allene Ramage.............. Hortense King 


Ethel Redding........ ..Ruth Livermore 
Nellie Richardson.......... Mabel Robeson 
Sarah Slaughter............ Jack Anderson 
Sarah Smiithi....—....—-< Louise Sydnor 
Frances Spratling........ Dorothy Spratt 
Evelyn Sprinkle.......... Mary Perkinson 
Olivia Swann............-... Margaret Keith 
Margaret Tufts Mary Junkin 
Ladie Sue Wallace.......... Lillian White 
Margaret Whitington...Edna Volberg 
Rosalie Wooten......Elizabeth Williams 
Mary Ella Zellars......Lillian LeConte 


The beauty of trim ankles this 
Springtime—or rather the im- 
portance of their fetching-fasct- 
nation in the eyes of Fashion 
(and the world)—means that 
the HOSIERY becomes an ac- 
cessory of artistry and untold 
excellence — CORRECTNESS 
and pecfection is the everything 
—and that means MUSE 
HOSIERY! 


# Che Ago 


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Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1925 


No. 17 


FOUNDERS DAY C 


Mrs. Hazen Smith 
Speaks In Chapel 


Her 


Sense of Value” 
Subject 


“True 


The college community is glad to 
Mrs. Hazen Smith to its 
platform again. Brought back by the 
Student Volunteer Conference held 
here, Mrs. Smith remained with us 
for sevral days On 
Thursday morning she addressed the 
college community on the subject of 
the college students’ tendency to de- 
velop a destructively critical attitude. 
The student superiority complex, as 
Mrs. Smith was pleased to call the 
problem, is fostered even in childhood 
by ambitious parents. 

We tell our children to study so 
that they may beat others in class. 
This is the beginning of the destruc- 
tively critical attitude which threatens 
to be the curse of our youth, Youth 
today is bound by so few traditions 
of the past that, says Mrs. Smith, 
“neither man nor God escape in the 
critical attitude of modern youth.” 
And with the sharpening of their crit- 
ical faculties, young people are be- 
eoming subjective, ready to condemn. 
“A true friend,” an Arab proverb 
goes, “is not an echo, but a thistle 
in the side.’ But this wisdom is 
quite perverted. Certainly it must be 
unpleasant to live with “a thistle,” 
and, if one looks for faults in his 
friends he will always find them. 
Speaking from her own experience, 
Mrs. Smith declared that, at the be- 
ginning of her career as a religious 
worker she was prone to criticize 
ministers, schools, Christian Endeayor 
meetings, ete., and one day, when she 
was in the act of criticizing, an el- 
derly gentleman said to her “My 
child, you're trying to measure the 
whole world by your own narrow 
yardstick.” A little later she saw 
somewhere this inscription: 

“My mind is prone to criticize the 
petty faults I see, 

If only I could realize my biggest 
job is me.” 

Such is the condition of the college 
student. She comes to college to pre- 
pare for the vocation of living, to get 
“a true sense of values.” Instead, 
she often acquires critical habits, and 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Decatur Fine Arts Club 
Meets at Agnes Scott 


Oriental Program Presented 


welcome 


last week. 


The Decatur Fine Arts Club held 
a very unique meting in Propylean 
Hall on Tuesday evening, February 
17. The Oriental program was most 
picturesque, composed of Oriental 
songs, dances and readings. 

Mr. George B. Hinman opened the 
evening by reading a selection from 
“Lala Ruk,” an old Arabian tale. It 
appropriately urged all to abondon 
themselves to the spirit of Arabia. 

Miss Moore, accompanied by Mrs. 
Hinman, rendered several character- 
istically beautiful and mystic songs, 
including “I'll Sing the Songs of 
Araby,” and “Persian Love Song.” 

Mr. Hinman told the club Arabian 
tales from “Sinbad the Sailor,” “The 
Butterfly That Stamped,’ “How the 
Rhinoceros got Its Skin,” and two 
Japanese fairy tales, “Origin of the 
Jelly Fish,’ and "Origin of Fire 
Flies.” 

Egyptian dances, rendered by pu- 
pils of Miss Nellie Sullivan, com- 
pleted the delightful oriental program. 

After adjourning the members vis- 
ited the faculty parlor, where many 
exquisite etchings were exhibited. 


Calendar for March 


Triangular Debate and Spring 
Holidays Main Features 


Another month of our school year 
gone and we turn over our calendar 
from February to March. The first 
five days we will fele the vibrant joy 
of spring and hear the lion’s roar of 
the March winds. 

March 7—Then at this opportune 
time when we are dreaming of sum- 
mer, on March 7, the Athletic Board 
will give an entertainment for the 
benefit of the swimming pool cam- 
paign. 

March 14—The Juniors give one of 
their enjoyable and unusual entertain- 
ments. 

March 20—Issues in that eagerly 
expected day, the date for the inter- 
collegiate debate. At the mention of 
March 20, the pulses quicken and the 
college en masse thrills with tense ex- 
citement. 

March 21—The Blackfriars 
another treat in store for the college, 
a three-act comedy, “Breezy Point,” 
to be presented on Saturday night. 

March 27—A day sacred to the 
hearts of Agnes Scott students and 
looked forward to since January 2. On 
that date we will bid the college fare- 
well for several days, and forsake 
books and studies until April 2. 
Spring holidays are almost as fine 
as the “Christmas ones, except, of 
course, they lack Santa Claus, but he 
can’t come only once a year, and so 
we fill this time with the joys and 
pleasures of spring. 


Mr. Blanshard 
Addresses 
History Classes 


have 


The members of Miss Hearon’s his- 
tory 13 and history 8 classes were 
fortunate enough to hear Mr. Blan- 
shard again, Saturday morning, Feb- 
ruary 14. The subject of his lecture 
to History 13 was “The Labor Lead- 
er and His Problems,” and the theme 
of his talk to History 8 was, “The 
Labor Unions in England.” He de- 
voted the latter part of each period 
to answering eager questions asked 
by the students and visitors, 


In his lecture about the labor lead- 
ers, Mr. Blanshard dispelled the il- 
lusion often held that they are para- 
sites fattening on the hard-earned 
wages of the workers. The average 
salary paid when wages everywhere 
were highest was only $500 per year. 
Leaders usually supplement their sal- 
aries by money earned at some other 
occupation, although Mr. Blanshard 
pointed out that the working man 
could not be so efficient a leader on 
account of his lack of independence. 


He went on to show how discour- 
aging is the task of the labor or- 
ganizer. When workers have been 
“fired” for joining a union, when 
they lose a strike, or when their 
leader opposes going on a strike as 
inexpedient and unadvisable, his pop- 
ularity wanes considerably in that 
section. Employers hate to see a 
labor organizer enter a town and 
often try to bribe him to leave. Al- 
though there are black sheep in this 
profession as well as in others, the 
men who enter it usually have high 
principles and are not out for mone- 
tary success anyway, so the attempted 
bribery generally fails. Often times, 
too, the labor organizer has to de- 
fend himself against physical vio- 
lence, and, sometimes, he is arrested. 
The leaders as a class are willing to 
go through these hardships in order 

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Seniors Celebrate 
Washinegton’s Birthday 


Famous Colonial Characters At 
Dinner 


Once again, February 22, came to 
pay its annual visit and brought with 
it a nation-wide celebration of the 
birthday of George Washington, the 
At Agnes 
Scott the celebration was a double 
one, being in honor of George Wash- 
ington, and also of George Wiashing- 
ton Scott, the founder of our college. 
All reverence and esteem is due to 
both of these men, for, as America is 
the proof of the indomitable spirit of 
our first president, Agnes Scott is 
the symbol of the vision and foresight 
of George Washington Scott. 

Six o’clock dinner was served in 
both dining rooms on February 21, 
which was chosen as the holiday. Red, 
white and blue, the colors of our flag, 
had changed our ordinary dining 
rooms into veritable salons. A tiny 
cherry tree was planted’ in the cen- 
ter of each table, and the white can- 
dles cast a mellow glow over the 
snowy cloths. A hush fell over the 
room, as the door opened and the 
Seniors, dressed in colonial costume 
and led by George Washington and 
Martha, entered and took their places 
at a long table in the center of the 
room. White wigs, gaily-colored 
dresses with hoop-skirts, black suits 
with knee breeches, square-toed shoes 
with shiny buckles, dainty slippers, 
black beauty spots on fair cheeks, the 
flutter of fans, a general air of gra- 
ciousness and hospitality took us back 
to the far away days just after the 
Revolution—to a time when every 
man was gallant and every lady fair, 
to a time when romance and adven- 
ture held sway. 

Washington addressed his guests 
and extended to them a gracious wel- 
come in behalf of himself and Mrs. 
Washington. During the course of the 
delightful dinner, other speeches 
were made by some of the distinguish- 
ed guests present. Among those who 
spoke on this occasion were: Thomas 
Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Benjamin 
Franklin, Betsy Ross, LaFayette, 
Francis Scott Key and Daniel Boone. 
Songs were sung to the Seniors by 
theix Sophomore sisters, who were 
seated at a table on the other side 
of the dining room, and a deep and 
heartfelt response came from the 
Seniors in answer to their little sis- 
ters. When the dinner was over, all 
stood up and sang “Alma Mater,” and 
many a senior had to force back the 
tears as she realized how short a time 
was left before she would be “far 
from the reach of the sheltering arms” 
of her Agnes Scott. 

After dinner all were invited to a 
dance in the gym. The stately and 
graceful minuet was the chief fea- 
ture of the evening, and all enjoyed 
seeing the ladies and gentlemen of 
colonial days perform this charming 
dance. Other dances were for all, 
and delightful music was furnished 
by the orchestra until a late hour. 

Those taking part in the minuet 
were: 

Gentlemen Gertrude Henry, 
Frances Lincoln, Mary Ann McKin- 
ney, Georgia May Little, Frances 
Bitzer, Bryte Daniel, Margaret Hines, 
and Eugenia Thompson. 


Ladies—Mildred Pitner, Margaret 
Hyatt, Mary Kessler, Jacqueline Rol- 
ston, Mary Breedlove, Eugenia Per- 
kins, Frances Tennent, Ellen Walker. 

The leading characters were as fol- 
lows: 


father of our country. 


White House 


Washington Frances 


George 
Bitzer. j 

Martha Washington—Mary Breed- 
love, 

Thomas Jefferson—Mary Palmer 
Caldwell. 

Patrick 
brooks. 
(Continued on Page 4, Column 4) 


Henry—Lillian Middle- 


ELEBRATED 


Mr. Venable and Mrs. 

Mason Offer Agnes 

Scott Use of Private 
Camp 


Cottage Across Lake Given 
College Campers For Spring 


Pine Lodge furnished an untold 
amount of pleasure to week-end 
campers during the fall months, and 
of course with the coming of spring 
it will bring greater joy than ever. 
So it was with disappointment that 
many anticipant groups learned that 
they could not go to camp this sem- 
ester, on account of the scarcity of 
week-ends and lack of cottage space. 
Just as in securing a site for our A. 
S. C. hut, however, Mr, Venable and 
Mrs. Mason came to our aid. This 
time their generosity and good will 
exceeds the granting of grounds for 
our lodge. Mr. Venable has offered 
us the use of his private cottage for 
week-end parties. 

This cottage is situated across the 
lake from ours, and is all furnished 
except for the cooking utensils. Now 
all students who wished to sign up 
for our camp but were unable to do 
so, may see Eleanor Albright and ar- 
range to spend a week-end at this hut 
of Mr, Venable. In order to be fair 
to all campers, the regular fee of 
twenty-five cents per week-end must 
be paid by each person going to camp. 
The money will go toward buying the 
kitchen furnishings. The regulations 
will be the same for both camps, and 
parties are urged to take especial 
care of Mr. Venable’s property. 

‘The evfire “S!leg cbmmunity~ap- 
preciates this kindness of Mrs. Ma- 
son and Mr, Venable, and we are as- 
sured that the cottage will be a 
source of unlimited pleasure for 
Agnes Scott campers. 


Dr. McGeochy 
Well-Known 
Trustee 


Dr. D. P. MeGeochy, as pastor of 
the Presbyterian girls at Agnes 
Scott, is probably the best known of 
our trustees. All his life he has been 
very interested in education, and has 
been active in that field. 


He was born in Robeson county, 
North Carolina, and attended a local 
high school in preparation for college. 
He graduated from Davidson College 
and then from Owin Seminary in Rich- 
mond, Virginia. Later, the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- 
ferred on him by Davidson. 


Dr. MecGeochy’s first pastorate 
work was done in North Carolina, 
where he was pastor of Home Mis- 
sion Churches in Perdu County, From 
there he went to fill the pastorate of 
a Presbyterian church in Lenoir, 
North Carolina, and then to Lewis- 
burg, West Virginia, to be minister 
of Old Stone Presbyterian Church. 
He also acted as moderator of the 
Synod of West Virginia, in the year 
1917. 

In 1918 he came to Decatur, and 
since he has been here, he has con- 
tinued his active interest in the edu- 
cational field. While in Perdu county 
he also served as superintendent of 
the county schools. Besides being a 
trustee of Agnes Scott, he is a trus- 
tee of Mitchell College, Statesville, 
North Carolina, and Lee McRae In- 
stitute, Banner Ells, North Carolina. 
He has served as special agent for 
the educational committee in the 
Synod of. West Virginia, and was also 
a member of the general assembly’s 


advisory committee. on education, 
1916-1918. 
Dr. MeGeochy has taken especial 


interest in the extension work of his 
church. Perhaps his greatest activi- 
ties in this field have been in the 
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Gamma Tau Alpha 
Announces T wo 
New Members 


Speake and Cheatham Elected 
To Membership 


Margery Speake 
Cheatham were 


and Elizabeth 
announced as the 
newly-elect members of Gamma Tau 
Alpha on Tuesday morning, January 
17. While we waited impatiently, 
Mr. Holt explained fully and in de- 
tail the custom of keeping back the 
real news, and enjoyed watching our 
tenseness as each possible climax was 
reached and passed, He inspired all 
with the high ideals of Gamma Tau, 
with their combination of scholastic 
attainment and personality. Without 
doubt both Margery and Blizabeth 
have lived up to these ideals and are 
quite worthy of the honor. As the 


members of the society marched out 
in cap and gown, everyone stood and 
sang “Alma Mater.” Sincere congrat- 
ulations and rejoicing have been given 
our two honored Seniors, who are both 
popular members of the class of ’25. 
On Tuesday night initiations were 
held in Propylean Hall. What took 
place is shrouded in mystery. After- 
wards, a banquet was given in the 
Alumni House. 

The decorations were in yellow and 
white. A silver basket of jonquils and 
pussywillows formed the centerpiece. 
The place cards wer ornamented with 
the Greek letters of the society. Ev- 
eryone enjoyed the jokes and fun, 
while a delicious menu was Se Veu. 

Menu 
Fruit Cocktail 
Turkey 
Creamed Cauliflower 
Stuffed Peppers 
Rolls Cranberries 
Lettuce Salad With Russian Dressing 
Strawberry Parfait 
Cafe noir Cheese Straws 

Those present were: Miss Smith, 
Miss Hearon, Miss Alexander, Miss 
Stansfield, Miss Skeen, Miss Cole, 
Miss Preston, Miss Harn, Miss Cora 
Morton '24, Miss Alice Cooper °20, 
Miss Ethel Ware ’22, Miss Daisy 
Frances Smith ’24, Margery Speake 
25, Blizabeth Cheatham ’25, Mr. Guy, 
of Emory; Mr. Holt and Mr. Stukes. 


Agnesi Mathematics 
Club Meets 


Interesting Study of Snow 
Crystals 


If you are one of those people who 
can see no charms in the sunny South 
in midwinter, and who long for the 
bracing winds and scurrying snow 
flakes of the North, you should have 
attended the meeting of the Mathe- 
maties club on last Tuesday. Winter 
reigned there in all his white glory. 

Through the instrumentality of 
Miss Howson, over one hundred slides 
of snow flakes, dew drops, and frost 
were produced from Mr. W. A. Bent- 
ley, of Jericho, Vermont. Mr. Bent- 
ley has devoted forty years of his 
life to the study of the unseen won- 
ders which nature produces with snow 
and ice. He has taken thousands of 
photographs of the exquisite designs 
of snowflakes and the jewelled dew- 


drop ornaments on blades of grass and 


flowers. One of his most interesting 
discoveries is the fact that each snow 
erystal has an individual design, no 
two being alike. 

Mr. Bentley’s work is the subject of 
an article in the February issue of 
the American Magazine. This article 
is illustrated by many beautiful 
photographs, and anyone who reads 
it, will find it intensely interesting. 

The snow crystals and dewdrops 
which were thrown on the screen were 

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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 

Emily Ehrlich, ’27 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 
Carolyn Essig, ’28 
Janet McDonald, ’28 
Clyde Passmore, ’25 


Miriam Preston, ’27 
Julia Pope, ’25 

Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
Martha Turner, ’28 
Nellie Richardson, ’26 


THOUGHTS ON STUDYING. 


Gamma Tau Alpha announcements provoke serious thinking 
as to what it is that really matters in our college life. Certain of 
our schoolmates have recently been honored for attaining some- 
thing that Agnes Scott deems of prime importance. What is it 
that they have attained? What would Alma Mater have us learn 
at her feet? If we should ask of many students what they seek 
in a college education, perhaps we should be able to unravel from 
the varied replies something like the following: An indefinable 
spirit, or quality of mind, that will give us power to understand 
the world and ourselves. The true purpose of a college education 
is the acquisition of such a spirit or quality of mind—eall it 
culture, “enlightenment of mind”, “ability to estimate values cor- 
rectly”, or what you will. It is that which enables a man to 
remain serenely undisturbed when prattlers predict the end of 
time, to find in the fall of Greece and Rome warnings for modern 
civilization, to choose his friends on a basis of worth, not nation- 
ality, social standing, or denomination. 

But, being placed in college and told to learn, how shall we go 
about acquiring illumination of mind? Undoubtedly, clear vision 
depends on knowledge. We cannot hope for correct perceptions 
unless we have a broad foundation of facts on which to base our 
estimates. We do not mean to state that simply a knowledge of 
facts produces enlightenment of mind. One may know that all 
life is a continual stream of protoplasm, without recognizing the 
insignificance of man; or one may stand before the pyramids and 
observe their vastness, without dreaming of the master mind 
behind them. Knowledge is not a guarantee, but rather, a pre- 
requisite of a cultured mind. 

Our goal is culture; our prerequisite, knowledge; but how to 
get knowledge? The answer is plain—by studying. Ah yes, 
there is the rub, the same old problem—studying. Certainly, in 
the abstract, we all admit that the chief purpose of students in 
an institution of learning is to study. Intellectual curiosity, 
scholarship, mental alertness—high-sounding words; but we, 
mental sluggards by nature, hurried pitilessly through whole 
courses before we have time to realize their meaning, hurried by 
Latin verbs and history notes, preferring a chocolate tan to the 
choicest bit of Browning, “sickled o’er with the pale cast of 
thought”, what have we to do with intellectual curiosity ? 

In attempting to find a live motive for studying, a high school 
editor once cleverly tried to prove that conscientious pupils have 


more pleasure than neglectful ones. They have the pleasure of a 
clear conscience the night before classes, he says, and the joy 
of superiority during classes. Perhaps they do; but the pleasure 
of self-satisfaction and of superiority is scarcely a worthy motive 
to stir a true student on to study. We should be impelled to 
study by a longing for enlightenment of mind, the mark of a 
cultivated man. But such a longing it is well-nigh impossible to 
keep always before the mind, through the heat of a college life, 
through the strain and hurry of tests and examinations. We 
need some other force to keep us going when these, our light- 
house aims, are faint. This force is supplied through a prayer- 
ful will, whose power will increase with exercise. But often, if we 
are bound to our books only by force of will, we may miss the 
real appreciation of what we study from the mere effort of keep- 
ing ourselves concentrated. And so we should try to arouse a 
vital interest in the subject, to deem it the most important thing 
in the world for these two hours during which we study, to live 
the experience it depicts. We should kneel before the altar at 
St. Peter’s with Charlemagne, discover the law of gravity with 
Newton, and ride to Canterbury with Chaucer. With desire for 
enlightenment, with will-power, and with interest in our work, the 
ideal of culture is gradually realized. 

Illumination of mind—it is not an easy task we set before 
ourselves. It rises like a mountain, bleak and steep, with few 
level places on which we may rest. On the Phi Beta Kappa key 
is a hand pointing to a star. “Ad astra per adversa”. Ah, well, 
perhaps we should not want the stars, were they not so far away. 


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$175 IN PRIZES FOR ORATIONS 
AND ESSAYS—ALL STUDENTS 
ELIGIBLE 


The Commission on Interracial Co- 
operation is offering three prizes, of 
one hundred dollars, fifty dollars and 
twenty-five dollars, for the three best 
orations or essays on some phase of 
race relations, submitted by students 
of Southern colleges on or before 
June 15, 1925. 

The only condition of entrance of 
any oration or essay is that it shall 
have been delivered on some public 
college occasion or printed in a col- 
periodical during the present 
school year. 

The contest is limited to the white 
colleges of the thirteen Southern 
states, including Kentucky and Ok- 
lahoma. Contestants are free to 
choose any phase of race relations 
and to treat it as they see fit. Papers 
must reach the office of the commis- 
sion not later than June 15 and prizes 
will be awarded as soon thereafter 


lege 


as possible, 

For further information, including 
suggestive topics and reading list, 
write R. M. Eleazer, educational di- 
rector, Commission on Interracial Co- 
operation, 409 Palmer Building, At- 


lanta, Ga. 


B. O. Z. STIMULATED BY HEY- 
WARD’S VISIT 

The B. O. Z. meeting with Grace 
Augusta Ogden on Monday night, 
Jan. 16, served to indicate that the in- 
spiration of Mr. and Mrs. Heyward’s 
talks on creative work was not just 
temporary. For in spite of tests, pa- 
pers and coming debates, three stories 
were read. “Maid of the Mist” was a 
delightful and tragic story of a misty 
green marble, a chiffon dress and a 
broken dream. The others were an 
interesting and true-to-life love story 
by Virginia Hollingsworth, and the 
story of some mis-sent valentines, by 
Margaret Tufts. 

After a discussion of the stories, in 
which the members promised to be 
“brutally frank,” in their criticisms, 
delicious refreshments of sandwiches 
and nuts were served. 


AGNES SCOTT GIRLS HEAR 
YELLOW JACKET QUARTET 
OVER RADIO 


Several Agnes Scott girls persuaded 
Miss Howson to let them listen in 
over the radio at science hall last 
week, on the concert given by the 
Yellow Jacket quartet of Georgia 
Tech from 9 to 10 o’clock. 

Mr. Al Holder was the successful 
leader of the four songsters, and Mr. 
Bill Walton, who played some popular 
piano solos, was the accompanist. The 
music was very much enjoyed by these 
Agnes Scott girls, especially “Let 
Me Call You Swetheart,” which was 
requested by them over the telephone. 


BLACKFRIARS WILL 
THREE-ACT COMEDY 


Blackfriars will present its annual 
spring play on March 21. “Breezy 
Point,” is a comedy in three acts, 
written by Belle Locke, which will 
fairly make you roar with laughter. 
The characters of the play are thir- 
teen females, and Miss Gooch has 
east rloes with her usual power of keen 
discernment. Her spring play is one 
which Blackfriars is always particu- 
larly anxious to interpret well, and 
this comedy promises to be no excep- 
tion. 

The cast is as follows: 

Aunt Derby Dexter—Georgia Mae 
Little. 

Elinor Pearl—Elizabeth Cheatham. 

Ashrael Grant—Anne McKay. 

Mrs. Hardscratch—Louisa Duls. 

The Hardscratch Twins—Elizabeth 
Griffin, Frances Treeborn. 

Mehitible Doolittle—Helena Her- 
mance. 

Bernice Vernon—Mary Anne Mc- 
Kinney. 

Laura Leigh—Mary Crenshaw. 

Edith Norton—Elizabeth Moore. 

Clarice Tenleigh—Mary Weems. 

Tantine—Mary Palmer Caldwell. 

Old Clem—Roberta Winter. 


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The Gloucester School of the Little 
Theatre, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 
is again offering two free scholarships 
to undergraduates of 
schools and colleges for its sixth sum- 
mer season, July and August, 1925. 

The school has its own experimental 
theatre where weekly performances 
are given and offers courses in: Pub- 
lic speaking, pantomime, acting, stage 
direction, lighting, scenery and play- 
writing. 


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Among the thirty plays produced 
last season were The Book of Job; 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle, Fleurette 
and Co., Essex Dane; Before Break- 
fast, Eugene O’Neill; The Haiduc, 
Colin Clements; Two Slatterns and a 
King, Edna Millay; Fame and the 
Poet, Lord Dunsany, The Man Who 
Married a Dumb Wife, Anatole 
France and The Two Virtues, Alfred 
Sutro. 

The faculty will include: Mrs. Flor- 
ence Evans of the Boston School of 
Public Speaking; Miss Florence Cun- 
ningham of the Theatre Colombier, 
Paris; Mlle. Mellor of the Dalcroze 
Institute, Geneva; Mr. Robert Hen- 
derson of the University of Michigan; 
Mr. Colin Clements of the Portman- 
teau Theatre and author of “Plays 
for a Folding Theatre” and “Plays 
for Pagans.” 

All communications concerning the 
scholarships should be addressed to: 
Miss Florence Cunningham, 112 
Charles St., Boston, Massachusetts. 


MEETING OF PI ALPHA PHI 


At the regular meeting of Pi Alpha 
Phi on Thursday night a very inter- 
esting debate was held on the eco- 
nomic phase of the subject: Resolved, 
That the Selective Immigration Act 
of 1924 is For the Best Interest of 
the United States. The affirmative 
was upheld by Dorothy Keith and 
Catherine Graeber, and the negative, 
by Pocahontas Wight and Ruth Lig- 
gin. Very good arguments were ad- 
vanced by both sides. 

This debate and two more that will 
be held next week on other phases of 
this same subject are preliminaries 
for the intercollegiate debate that is 
to take place in the third week of 
March. Our two regular teams will 
debate against each other with prac- 
tically the same arguments that will 
be used against Sophie-Newcomb, and 
Randolph-Macon later. 


MISS HEARON AND MISS CAMP- 
BELL ENTERTAIN FACULTY 
AT TEA 


Miss Hearon and Miss Campbell 
entertained the Agnes Scott faculty 
and others of their friends at a 
charming tea given in the Alumnae 
House last Thursday afternoon, Feb- 
ruary 19. The Alumnae House, gay 
with daffodils and paper white nar- 
cissi, breathed the first perfume of 
spring that has floated to our cam- 
pus this year. The tea was perhaps 
given in honor of the dawning spring; 
we have been able to find no other 
motive, unless, indeed, as some one 
has suggested, Miss Campbell had 
“wot a box from home” and wished 
to share it with the rest of the fac- 
ulty. Judging’ from the refresh- 
ments, Miss Campbell did receive a 
box from home, for old Virginia dain- 


Intercollegiate 


News 


Students at Furman University, 8. 
C., will soon have the privilege of 


seeing some of the American army 
aviators who circled the globe by air 
last summer. Two members of that 
famous crew will come to Furman on 
March 7, to exhibit their machine, 
some pictures and themselves. 


The history department of the 
Louisiana State University has re- 
cently started a museum, following 
the receipt of several novel donations. 
The collection includes: A diary of the 
Civil War, containing music and 
poems of the trials and hopes of the 
Southern people; a French ritual re- 
vealing the secrets of the post-war 
Ku Klux Klan; three pieces of Spanish 
money dated 1814, 1819, 1821; a copy 
of the Planter’s Gazette of Plaque- 
mine in 1844. 


“The finest pieces of manhood and 
womanhood that serve our country as 
statesmen, that lead society as moral 
guides, that serve as the pillars and 
posts of our churches, that stand as 
examples of motherhood and father- 
hood, have all passed through the fire 
of toil, study and difficulty. They 
have been misunderstood, misrepre- 
sented, unappreciated, and slighted; 
but they preserved, they let go the 
dross and clung to the real mettle of 
manhood and the fine fibre of woman- 
hood.”—Exchange. 


What does the undergraduate read? 
From Columbia University: Within a 
few hundred feet of the great library 
which shelters a world famous collec- 
tion of 800,000 volumes under a tow- 
er of masonry, a spectator discovered 
that a campus subway news dealer 
disposes of 600 copies of each issue of 
“True Story,” while he finds it un- 
profitable to keep a single copy of 
the “Bookman.” One hundred and 
fifty people walk out of a certain 
bookstore, near the campus, with 
“Snappy Stories,” “Adventure,” etc., 
but 75 purchase “intellectual” mag- 
azines. It is interesting to note that, 
among the latter class, the “American 
Mercury” ranks first and the “At- 
mantic Monthly” come second. 


Statistics have been compiled at 
McGill University to show the causes 
of distraction in the library. The 
causes were: howling canines, day 
dreaming, 225; women’ entering or 
moving about, 96; talking neighbors, 
87; the library clock, 24. 


ties were served, beaten biscuit and 
delicious Smithfield ham. 

Besides, there were tea and cof- 
fee, cake, and mints. Among those 
accepting Miss Campbell and Miss 
Hearon’s hospitality, other than our 
faculty, were Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. 
Good, Mrs. Randolph, Mrs. Gaines and 
Miss Sturges. 


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GIDDIE, GGSSIP 


Thursday Night. 
Dearest Giddy:— 
Giddy, you’re the biggest nuisance 
I ever saw. You think I’m going to 
do all the writing and you just drop 
me a note every now and then—and 
I won’t stand for it. This is the last 
nice letter I’m going to write you un- 
less you write me some that are just 
as good—hear? I’m tired of doing all 
the correspondence. 


Even if I am peeved with you tho’ 
I wish you were going to be here for 
Saturday night. It’s going to be so 
cute and exciting. Of course, I never 
have been before to a George Wash- 
ington celebration—here, I mean, but 
all the old girls say it’s perfectly love- 
ly. The Seniors all dress like George 
and Martha and Patrick Henry and 
all and make speeches and every- 
thing. Don’t you imagine they are 
excited? I know I should be. (Now in 
a case like that would you say should 
or would, Giddy?) 

The other day we most had a trag- 
edy here, and guess what in?—the 
swimming pool. It’s so small, can’t 
but about four people go in at the 
time. However, when it happened—the 
tragedy, I mean—Katherine Houston 
was one of the four and I don’t know 
just how it happened ’cause the wa- 
ter isn’t anywhere over your head but 
anyway she lost her balance and 
spluttered ’round several times, going 
under twice and got everybody there 
all excited and then Sarah Shields 
jumped in and rescued her. 1] guess 
Katherine wasn’t much the worse for 
it tho’ because I saw her out the very 
next day. 

And the funniest thing happened 
in trig last Friday. You know Mary 
Perkinson, don’t you? Well, she up 


and asked Margaret Gunn who wrote 
the first trig book and Margaret told 
her Mr. Wentworth Smith! I guess 
she never had studied much about the 
ancients like we did in High School. 

Giddy, it surely is a good thing that 
all Sophomores are required to take 
hygiene because do you know that 
one girl—or maybe two didn’t know 
the difference between Isocretes and 
the Aesophogus? Hazel Huff asked 
Gladys Patz who Aesophogus was and 
Gladys said “I don’t know, who was 
he?” And another time Dr. Sweet 
asked what a vitamine was and some- 
body said it was a patent medicine! 
Why, Giddy, I even know more than 
that. 

Let me tell you something Mr. Diek- 
man said in one of his music classes 
the other day and then I must stop 
and do Latin Prose again. I feel like 
saying “girls can come and girls can 
go but Latin Prose goes on forever,” 
and then some. But anyway, Mr. 
Diekman was singing a tune to illus- 
trate something—you know by say- 
ing “la-la-la-la-la,” and when he got 
through he said, “Now that’s not dra- 
matic but it’s pretty singing.” Well 
everybody in the class nearly died 
laughing—of course, he meant the 
piece he was illustrating but it sound- 
ed like what he meant was his sing- 
ing. And then he went on to say that 
the funeral marches were very pop- 
ular music. 

But I must stop Giddy. I could 
rave on all night but I mustn’t this 
time and I won’t next time—or even 
write this much if you don’t write 
me one just as good as this. 


Peeved, but still yours, 
AGGIE. 


BLANSHARD ADDESSES 
HISTORY CLASSES 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 
‘to better the condition of our work- 
ers. 

In his second talk of the morning, 
Mr. Blanshard contrasted the prog- 
ress of labor unions in England and 
‘in the United States. A much larger 
proportion of the workers belong to 
the unions, and a great many more 
trades and professions have ‘been or- 
ganized in England. Some of the 
finest men in England are definitely 
allied with the labor movement— 
Bernard Shaw and Bertram Russell, 
for instance—and the laborers ex- 
ercise a greater political power. 

One of the unusual features of the 
British Labor movement, is their 
giant cooperative, which started out 
as a cooperative grocery store, but 
has now grown to embrace nearly all 
branches of industry. It owns its 
own factories, stores, ships and 
sources of raw materials, and can 
supply at less cost than other pro- 
ducers. It is owned and controlled 
by several million workers, each of 
whom has an equal voice in its man- 
agement, The English working 
man’s condition has been mitigated 
to a great degree by this agency. Al- 
though chiefly on account of the 
vaster extent of our area, such a co- 
operative would not be so feasible*tin 
our country. Mr. Blanshard used it 
as an example of how much it is to 
the laborer’s advantage to cooperate, 
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(Continued frem Page 1, Column 4) 
erection of new church buildings and 
establishing of new churches. While 
pastor in Lenoir he directed the build- 
ing of three churches in surrounding 
communities. In West Virginia he se- 
cured the erection of the Presbyterian 
church at the famous old White Sul- 
phur Springs, and since coming to 
Decatur, h has been responsible for 
the establishment of the Oakhurst 
church, which in the last three years 
has reached a membership of over 
three hundred. He has also been a 
member of the Home Mission Com- 
mittee in North Carolina, West Vir- 
ginia and Georgia and now has plans 
already under way for establishment 
of new missions. Perhaps no one has 
been more responsible for the success 
of the movement to bring Columbia 
Seminary back to Georgia, than he. 

Evidence of the fact that Agnes 
Scott girls are not the only ones who 
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The Student Industrial Commission 
had charge of a Bryn Mawr program 
at the Y. W. C. A. on February 20, 
for the purpose of arousing eathusi- 


asm for the Bryn Mawr summer 
school for industrial girls. 

The girls, both students and indus- 
trial girls, spent a delightful evening 
at the “Y.” The fun began with sup- 
per. 
little dolls, some dressed in traveling 


The tables were decorated with 


clothes and others in knickers and 
shirts, which are worn at the sum- 
mer school. After supper the com- 
mission put on a stunt portraying 
life at Byrn Mawr. It began with stu- 
dent government elections, and ended 
with reducing exercises. 

After this stunt Miss Davis told us 
something of life at Bryn Mawr, its 
purpose and aims. Miss Davis’ talk 
was exceedingly interesting and in- 
spiring, and it is hoped that it will 
be the cause of a number of regis- 
trations for Bryn Mawr. 


them is found in the demand for him 
to talk before young people’s confer- 
ences, to deliver commencement ser- 
to conduct 


mons and evangelistic 


campaigns. 


MRS. HAZEN SMITH SPEAKS IN 
CHAPEL—TRUE SENSE OF 
VALUES HER SUBJECT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 
goes home dissatisfied with the nar- 


rowness she finds there. Professor 
William James, in speaking before 
Radcliffe, once said that “Harvard 
stands for sterilized conceit and in- 
capacity for being pleased,” but that 
“real culture lives by sympathies and 
admirations, not by dislikes and dis- 
dains.” We are happy in the privilege 


of attending college, but, if we go 
home simply critical, it would have 
been better had we not come.” Wis- 
dom is a sense of proportion, the 
power to see clearly one’s ends and 
their relative worth.” It is the kind 
of perception that Jesus had when 
He scorned the conceit of the 
Pharisees. 


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On Friday morning Mrs. Smith 
spoke on the relation of colleg stu- 
dents to the church. Her talk was 
based upon a book published by the 
clergy of England and entitled, “Stu- 
dents and the College.” In the appen- 
dix of the book is a questionnaire 
sent to various colleges and a ¢om- 
posite of the answers received from 
To the question, “What is 
the use for the Church,” some re- 
plied that it is unnecessary, or good 
only for 
capable of giving one prestige. To the 
inquiry as to why students do not at- 
tend more services, the students re- 


students. 


funerals or weddings, or 


musie 
were poor, or that they had not time 
enough, or, in the words of one, 
“there is so much else to be done in 
college, and the churches will still 
be there when college is over.” If such 
is the attitude of students toward the 
church, then it is, indeed, time for 
the church to be interpreted to them. 

First, what is the purpose of the 
church? It is, simply, “to know 
Jesus Christ to make Him 
known.” But why should we have a 


church? Are not high-minded indi- 
viduals and social service workers 
potent in spreading the gospel of 
Jesus? No, individuals may help, 
but the church alone has that dynamic 
which can change the nature of the 
world, and “eradicate innate human 
selfishness.” The church recognizes 
the existence of sin and seeks to 
remedy it through the blood of Jesus. 
The dynamic power of the church is, 
then, the first justification of its ex- 
istence. Again, we must have a 
church because the individual needs 
the support of others. Each person 
cannot begin at the beginning and 
reconstruct his own religion. 

The church offers him a religion 
brought down from two thousand 
years ago, and stated in creeds by 
master minds. In the church, one may 
find service through loyalty to his 
own denomination and fellowship 
with other denominations. Then, we 
have the functions of the church as 
reasons for its existence. The church 
has three functions, worship, thought 
and service. There is an appalling 
lack of the spirit of worship in the 
world today. We need to slacken our 
hurrying steps, to “be still and know 
that He is God.” There has been re- 
cently much thought along religious 
lines, resulting in a division of many 
people into three classes, fundamen- 
talists, conservatives and modernists. 
Which shall we be? Unfortunately, 
even students are not enough inter- 
ested in that question to pay the price 
of hard thinking. Is youth losing its 
faith? No, it is probably simply los- 
ing its childish misconceptions of re- 
ligion, Ag one’s intellectual horizon 
broadens, so should his spiritual hori- 
zon become broader and deeper. He 
need not fear to bring the light of 
science to bear on Christian teach- 
ings, for Christianity will stand. 
Service can come to a group of peo- 
ple only after it has come to the in- 
dividuals of that group. “The test of 
a man’s religion is the extent to which 
it is tied up to his everyday life.” 
What we need is not a “flood of talk 
and mere trickle of deeds,” for Jesus 
has said, “not everyone that sayeth 
—but he that doeth the will of the 
Father,” By your lives will your serv- 
ice be known. 


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You may be surprised, but— 

The other day Red Hudson was 
reading very intently. Over and over 
she read the same page. Then with 
a look of despair she said: “I’ve 
looked through this list of universities 
three times and Agnes Scott’s name 


just isn’t here!” 

During the Student Volunteer Con- 
vention some one told Frances Alston 
that there would be visiting young 
men as well as young women. She, 
with a look of said: 
“Why! I never heard of young men!” 
Knowing Frances as well as we do, 
we think she doubtless had something 
else to add to her startling statement, 
but that’s all she was given time to 
say. 

This was overheard in the day stu- 
dent room during a period of unusual 
confusion—‘Now don’t you kid me— 
if you do I’ll lam (b) you.” We are 
wondering just how the second an- 
imal was spelt, and if the use of 
Mary’s proverbial quadruped was in- 
tentional. But of course it was. 

There was one night last week when 
Margaret Rogers did not have a date. 
Yes, nearly everyone she knew was 
out of town just then and the others 
were in the Follies. This was an 
unprecedented occasion, and will nev- 
er occur again. 

Mary Smith came forth with this 
wise crack the other day, “If Hades 
were paved with good intentions, 
mine would have no sign of a rut 
anywhere!” Philosophy is becoming 
one of her marked characteristics. 

Some of the day students turned in- 
to gentlemen for the George Wiash- 
ington dinner. Marianne Strauss re- 
called us to the times of Daniel 
Boone, and Frances Moore as Francis 
Scott Key stirred us all again with 
memoirs of his “Star Spangled Ban- 
ner,” and Sarah Fullbright as Ben- 
jamin Franklin again won our ad- 
miration with his eloquence. 

There may be a lot of other things 
you would be surprised at but we 
reserve the right to keep them secret 
—for a while! 


amazement, 


AGNESI MATHEMATICS CLUB 
MEETS—INTERESTING STUDY 
OF SNOW CRYSTALS 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 
exquisite in form and shape. Miss 
Howson read parts of the article 
while they were being shown. The 
members of the club and those other 
students who were wise enough to 
attend the meeting, were charmed by 
the beauty and unsuspected wonders 
which the picture revealed, The meet- 
ing was felt to be one of the most 
delightful and instructive that has 

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AGONISTIC 


Student Life 


In Germany 


(Continued From Preyious Issue) 


He knows now something tangible 
about the 
istence, that had once been so far 
from the pre-war student’s almost 
Gilbertian gaiety. He has received a 
schooling of inestimable value for the 
future official and judge, who 60 
often distinguish themselves by their 
aloofness from actual life. The 
working side by side of laborer and 
student has brought about a new un- 
derstanding between formerly largely 
hostile classes that will work for so- 
cial peace in a country where class 
differences were always so marked, 
The student’s own co-operative enter- 
prises taught him the great lesson 
of co-operation, which is so highly 
necessary under the circumstances of 
the intricate life of today, which do 
not allow our human co-existence to 
be all struggle and fight in spite of 
all the proclaiming of ruthless com- 
petition. 

It is far too early to say that 
this awakening of the German student 
to social consciousness is to become 
permanent. There are indications 
enough of a relapse into leading a 
sort of dream-existence from the far 
from pleasant realities of today. 
There are those, and many of them 
wear the colored caps, who long for 
the times of 1871-1914, the time of an 
exuberant materialism, material 
wealth and external power; let us 
call them the reactionaries for the 
shortness of the term. There are, 
furthermore, those who do not want 
reaction but conscious reversion to 
the life and social order on a purer 
plan as, they imagine, it existed in 
the Middle Ages, when, as the Ger- 
man romantic mystic, Novalis, de- 
clared in his famous fragment ,“Chris- 
tianity and Europe”, written in 1799, 
and often cited in these days, “spir- 
itual forees governed the European 
world, when belief and love as the 
more beautiful blossoms of her youth 
hung over Europe which have since, 
alas, given room to the less finer 
fruits which are knowedge and pos- 
session.” 

A sociology of the German student 
life would have to recognize that the 
cohesive impulses within these two 
categories are much stronger than in 
that big body in which the general 
German student body is organized to- 
day, the Deutsche Studentenschaft, 
founded in 1919, a fact that cannot 
astonish anybody who has some 
knowledge of the pluralistic structure 
of our modern world in which the old 
forces show all the powers of the 


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of life. 
||| apprehension that this big enthusiasm 


strangling grip of a doomed man. The 
Deutsche Studentenschaft is an at- 
tempt of bringing together all stu- 
dents into one big powerful body in- 
volving a declaration of the autonomy 
and self-government of the ‘‘academic 
citizens,” so far as their own ‘sphere 
goes, and under their own constitu- 
tion. It is well worth reminding the 
foreign reader that the German uni- 
versities always, even under the old 
regime, enjoyed a certain autonomy 
and that there existed some sort of 
special jurisdiction over students. 

This new national body comprises 
the local committees at the several 
universities. These are recognized as 
corporations by the state laws. The 
membership is compulsory for every 
regular German student, who has to 
pay a small fee for it each semester. 
Foreign students share neither in the 
privileges nor the duties. The main 
functions of the local committees are: 
representation of the whole student 
body, charge of the academic self-gov- 
erning powers; participation in the 
administration of those university af- 
fairs directly concerning the student 
body, academic discipline and juris- 
diction; advancement of athletics; ad- 
ministration of self-help organiza- 
tions. For a part of these activities 
special offices (Amter) have been cre- 
ated, as for example law offices that 
give judicial advice, offices that help 
the newcomer to find a room, athletic 
and employment offices, offices that 
buy and sell books at moderate prices, 
etc. 


Athletic activities have as yet nev- 


er played a large role in the Ger- 
man student’s life. At its last year’s 
national meeting, however, the Stu- 
dentenschaft has resolved that every 
able-bodied student, foreign students 
again exempted, has to take part in 
athletics of some kind. A little while 
ago the ministry of education of one 
of the federal states, following a res- 
olution of the faculty and the Stu- 
dentenschaft of the University of Jena 
published a decree that after October 
1, 1925, nobody will be allowed to en- 
ter university examinations in this 
state unless he can prove that he has 
actually taken part in these activi- 
ties. The purpose of resolutions and 
decrees like these may be duly deemed 
just as laudable as the means to this 
end seem to us dubious; this the more 
because they endanger one of the 
sacred and not altogether wrong tra- 
ditions of German university life, that 
of absolute freedom for the student 
of selecting his own courses and oc- 
cupation and shaping his own mode 
One cannot but express the 


for sports which characterizes Ameri- 
can university life and which the vis- 
itor of this country for the greater 


|| part admires, cannot be created by 


means of coercion. But all decisions 
like these are far from final and are 
expressions of a good will for new 


forms of activities. 


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Agnes Scott girls are always 
welcome— 

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These changes within the student 
body accompany an even more im- 
portant change of the whole struc- 
ture of the German university as an 
institute of learning. Already this 
structure has become less rigid and 
less formal than it was. What does 
it matter, if for these reasons the 
periwigs fear for its very existence 
and high standards and achievements. 
Slowly another ideal of humanity is 
coming up as well as a new concep- 
tion of the sciences. There is a cer- 
tain conflict between the different 
standpoints as to life of the physical, 
actual and technical sciences on the 
one side and the mental sciences (phi- 
losophy, history, linguistics, law, etc.) 
on the other. Modern natural science 
is by its very nature more closely 


connected with practical life. The 
mental sciences, however, have re- 
tained their “unutilitarian” view of 


the classical conception of studies and 
this tendency is still preponderant in 
the faculties of philosophy, which in- 
clude besides philosophy, history of 
all kinds, psychology, languages, etc., 
so much that in spite of their splendid 
discoveries and achievements the tech- 
nical colleges (Technische Hochschu- 
len) have gained equal rank with the 
universities only very slowly. Against 
this traditional conception the young- 
er ones of every age in the faculties 
raise the wider conception of science 
as necessarily connected with life, 
they want a phenomenological man- 
ner of observing 
present life with all its conditionali- 
ties, historical and sociological; fur- 
thermore a systematic summing up of 
the endless mass of specialized knowl- 
edge instead of the incessant raising 
of isolated problems which threatens 
to lead to an overgrowing of special- 
ist work. Together with this sum- 
ming up of results, of a seeing-to- 
gether of facts and currents, a more 


and paproaching 


intimate union of the artistic form 
and the results of investigation is 
hoped for, a synthesis which has 
made its appearance in the works of 
scholars like Wilhelm Dilthey, Fred- 
erick Gundolf, Ernst Bertram, and 
Oswald Spengler. 

So in many ways the time, when it 
was possible to substitute learning 
for education, is brought nearer to 
its end; besides the mere intellectual 
training, religion, art, social ethics, a 
new consciousness of the human body 
have become factors of educating the 
German student in order to make him 
a personality in the community. 


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Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Miss Hearon—‘Does anyone know 
what the Sherman act was?” 
C. Passmore—‘Marching through 


Georgia.” 
—Ga. Tech Yellow Jacket. 


First Freshie—‘What’s your room- 
mate like?” 


Second Freshie—‘Everything I’ve 
got.” —West Point Pointer. 


Hen—“I’ve stopped giving my wife 
pin money.” 

Pecked—“Why ?” 

Hen—“She bought a rolling pin.” 


I. W. W.—‘Let’s strike for shorter 
hours.” 

Red—“You bet. 
too much.” 


Sixty minutes is 


—Minnesota Ski-U-Mah. 


“Did you have your hair cut?” 
“No, I washed it and it shrank.” 
—Selected. 


“Of all sad words for girls or men, 
The saddest are these: ‘It’s quarter 
of Ten’!” —Selected. 


*Guest—“I thought you said this 
was a double bed.” 
Inn Keeper—“Vell, you haf to dou- 
ble up to get in, don’t you.” 
—Selected. 


Logic 
We go to college to improve our 
faculties, 
Our instructors are our faculties, 
Therefore, we go to college to im- 


prove our instructors. 
—Selected. 


“T always wondered where all the 
Smiths came from until I viisted the 
city.” 

“Then what happened?” 

“T saw a sign which read: “Smith 


Manufacturing Company’!” 
—Selected. 


“T have a cold in my head.” 


“Well, that’s something.” 
—Selected. 


First Professor—‘Do you believe a 
rabbit’s foot ever brought luck?” 
Second Prof.—‘Yes, I do. My wife 
felt one in my pocket once, and 
thought it was a mouse.” 
Northwestern Purple Parrot.. 


“You must have worked hard in ~ 


your life.” 
“Why?” 
“All work and no play makes Jack 
a dull boy!” 
—Selected.. 


“This is a beautiful place.” 
“Have you lived here all your life?” 
“Not yet.” 


SENIORS CELEBRATE WASH- 
INGTON’S BIRTHDAY 
Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 
Benjamin 

bright. 
Betsy Ross—Jacqueline Rolston. 
LaFayette—Margaret Hines. 
Francis Scott Key—Frances Moore, 
Daniel Boone—Marianne Strauss. 
Rebekah Scott Hall 


George Washingotn—Georgia May 
Little. 


Martha Washington—Martha Lin 


Franklin—Sarah Full-| Manly. 


Thomas Jefferson—Mary Ann Mc- 
Kinney. 

“Patrick Henry—Frances Lincoln. 
Betsy Ross—Mary Keesler. 
LaFayette—Elizabeth Griffin. ~- 
Francis Scott Key—Bryte Daniel. 
Daniel Boone—Eugenia Thompson. 


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Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1925 


No. 18 


Dr. Charles K. Edmunds 


Provost of..Johns Hopkins 
Gives Interesting. Illustrated 
Walle On Modern 

- China ms 


it the} silage community went, to 
hear Dr. Edmunds Friday night, ex~ 


7 


pecting a highly technical-or political | 


discussion, it was decidedly on-, the 
wrong. track. _Dr:. Edmunds delivered | 
one of the most interesting lectures | 
that has been given at the college} 
this year. It was highly, instructive, | 
and_made vivid not only by Dr, /Ed- 
younds’ manner of delivery, but also) 
by the very beaytiful slides which ac~| 
companied the lecture.- 


Dr. Edmunds. went to Chine. in 


1903, remaining there until two years | 
During that time he traveled}: 


ago. 
over five thousand miles, doing Mag- 
netic Survey Work. He personally 
took all of the pictures by which he 
illustrated his talk. 

With the aid of a’map, Dr. Ed- 
munds pointed out the’ fundamental 
items in China’s modern political 
problem. The country is, first, divided | 
into. twenty-one provinces, all o 
which have maintained political inde- 
pendence; second, the enormous size | 
of the country is not conducive to cen- 
tralization; third, there is no nation- 


al feeling; fourth, taking the coun-| 
try as a whole, it may be said that} 


there are practically no means of 
communication. 

This last consideration is appalling. 
There are no railroads going either 
north to south, or east to west. The 
only railroads of which the country 
may boast at all are those directly 
about the large cities. Railroads do 
not pany in China. As matters now 
stand, human labor is so cheap that 
corporations do not feel justified in 
building more. 
a log which he can hardly lift twen- 
ty-five miles for the equivalent of 
twenty-five cents. It is a customary 
; sight to see esteemed merchants car- 
rying their own produce of four hun- 
dred pounds of tea from one town to 
another. Mail, also, in China is car- 
ried by human labor, and the result- 
ing postage is cheaper than the U. 
S. rate. 

China’s climate is as varied as the 
climates from Cuba to the Hudson 
Bay in Canada. The lands of the 
south are very fertile, and are so 
worked that four crops are obtained 
yearly. Here the wet method of 
farming is carried on. Rice is one 
of the chief products. The north is 
less fertile, and more mountainous. 
Nevertheless, agriculture, along prim- 

(Continuet on Page 3, Column 4) 


Emory Woman’s Club 
Presents “The 
Impresario” 


Scott Delights Audience 


“The Impresario,” as rendered by 
Scott and his company of singers, 
even surpassed the expectations of 
the audience. As is characteristic of 
Mozart’s operas, “The Impresario” 
is of a light, fanciful, bright vein, and 
the voices were well suited to their 
roles. From the minute when Scott 
appeared on the stage until his last 
note died away, he kept his audience 
alert and responsive. Miss Howell 
and Miss Huntington, also delighted 
the audience with their beautiful 
high soprano voices. 

The cast of characters were: 

Emanuel Shickaneder, Director of 
Vienna Opera House—Henri Scott. 

Phillip, his nephew—Francis Tyler. 

Mozart, his composer — Harold 
. Howsen. 

Madam Hofle, Mozart’s prima don- 
na sister-in-law—Hazel Huntington. 

Mile. Dorothea Uhlic, singer of 
Linz—Lottice Howell, 


A Chinese will carry | 


Lectures At Agnes Scott 


Me Riley Scott At 


College : 


‘Ttineeant » Poet Reider Olen 


Works." frcttr 


Mr. ‘Riley Scott, a poet from Ken- 
| tucky read Some of his favorite poems 
lin chapel Tuesday ‘ight, after the 
student “government “meeting: Mr. 


| Scott is°an outddor man, and “spends 
| most of his time in the ‘open, doing | 


this own cooking. He has traveled |! 
quite a*bit, and speaks several lan- 
| guages fluently. 

' In his introductory talk; Mr: Seott 
for Ke has had ‘éxperience in that 
mode’ of travel aiid ‘knows personally 


first successful aeroplanists. 
| that he might*also speak about West 
*Poitt! and that, since we girls ‘have 
not yet been admitted there, the best 
'thing we ean do-is to marry a West 
| Point graduate, Then Mr. Scott urged 
|;the value of using good English in 
‘our conversation. He said that the 
words of a poet may sound very sim- 
|ple, as the Monosyllables of Tenny- 
sof’s “Crossing the Bar,” but that 
| the ability to* write well comes only 
with much study and constant prac- 
|tice. He warned against the discour- 
agement that we may have in receiv- 
ing engraved r_jection slips from pub- 
| lishing houses, where we may have 
sent the produttions of our pens; and 
he advised us to try our works on 
some good critics before sending them 
to a publisher. He usually tries his 
peotry on school children before send- 
ing it away to mn editor. 

The first poéta read to us was 
| dedicated to Kentucky, and in it he ex- 
pressed his ardent devotion to his na- 
tive state. Mr. Scott claims to have 
written the first spring poem in 
Georgia this year and, after read- 
ing one dedicated to this season a 
year ago, he read his new poem en- 
titled “Spring.” Following this, were 
poems of other seasons loved by the 
poet, Indian Summer and Thanksgiv- 
ing; the setting of both being in Ken- 
tucky. Mr. Scott read with earnest 
feeling “Mother,” “Daddy,” and 
“Grandmother.” The poem “Mother” 
was written in memory of his own 
mother, and in it is poured out his 
deep love for her. Since our fathers 
are so often neglected by poets, Mr. 
Scott wrote a poem dedicated to 
“Daddy,” and then one to his sym- 
pathetic grandmother. The Georgia 
members of the audience were com- 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 4) 


Bauer and Casals Render 
Entertaining Concert | 


The Bauer-Casals concert given on 
Tuesday evening, February 24, at the 
auditorium, was a very delightful one. 
This was one of the Civie Concert 
series brought here by the Atlanta 
Music Club. Both Mr. Bauer, the 
pianist, and Mr. Casals, the "cellist, 
were very gracious, and each gave 
the audience: 

The selections were well chosen and 
the following. program -quite charmed 
the audince: 

J. Sonata in A Minor, Beethoven: 
Allegro, Scherzo, Adagio-Allegro— 
Messrs. Bauer and Casals. 

2. (a) Papillons, Op. 2, Schumann. 
(b) Scherzo in C Sharp Minor, 
Chopin—Mr. Bauer. 

3. (a) Intermezzo from “Gaye- 
seas,” Granados. (b) Fileuse, Faure. 
(c) Chanson Villageoise, Popper— 
Mr. Casals. 

4, Sonata in A minor, Grieg; Alle- 
gro Agitato; Andante Tranquillo; Al- 
legro—Messrs. Bauer and Casals. 

Edward Gendron at the piano for 
Mr. Casals. 

It will be interesting for the music- 
lovers at Agnes Scott to know that 


said that he tight spéak on aviation, 


the’ Wrizht brothers, who were the 
He said} 


Glee Club Gives|Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 
Addresses. Agnes Scott 


Concert — 


Delightful Program of Classical 
and Popular Musie. 


"The concert given “by the Agnes 
| Scott’ Glee Club for the benefit of 


paign Saturday evening was one of 


program was well selected with its 
combination of both the popular and 
classi¢al’ element, and with the de2 
parture from: the customary by thie 
rendition: of,.{iThe Professor’s Dilem- 
na.” When. all performances are 
made so ably, it is difficult to point 
,out any as possessing exceptional 
merit, but undoubtedly the reading 
by Mary Freeman desérves ‘special 
mention; The subject. was’ ‘The Min- 
uet” and, the ever charming Mary 
was additionally so in her old-fash- 
ioned costume and in the ability with 
which she recited and the Brace with 
\which she dan¢éed. . 

The opening’ number, “Catrmena” 
‘was particularly well received: by, the 
audience. “Mah Lindy Lou” also won 
favor, as did ‘one of the encores, 
“Little Papoose.” The two soloists, 
Ruth Drane and Helen Bates, added 
to the popularity which they have 
already acquired. here, and the se- 
lections by the Trio were enthusias- 
tically applauded. 

The program and personnel of the 
Glee Club follows: 

Part I, 
1. Carmena,. Wilson—Glee Club. 


2. A Brown Bird Singing, Wood— 
Ruth Drane. © 

3. Mah, Lindy Lou, Strickland— 
Glee Club, 

4, Reading, Selected—Mary Free- 
man. 
_5. Morning, Speaks — Special 
Chorus. 


6. Hayfields and- Butterflies, “Del 
Riego—Helen Bates. 
7. Come Down, Laughing Streamlet, 


Spross—Glee Club. 
8. Trio. (a) Pinin’ Just for You, 
Adams; (b) All Alone, Berlin— 


Misses Etheredge, Johnston and Bit- 
zer. 

9. Gondola Song, 
Club. 


Roberts — Glee 


Part Il 
THE PROFESSOR’S DILEMMA 
By Frederick Root 
Singers—Misses Frances Bitzer, 
Annie Johnson, Grace | Etheredge, 
Martha Johnston, Ruth Drane, Ruth 
(Continuet on Page 3, Column 4) 


Mrs. 8S. M. Inman 
Trustee 


Atlanta’s Most Prominent 
Woman Citizen. 


Mrs. S. M. (Mildred Mc- 
Pheeters Inman), was the first 
woman elected to membership on the 


board of Agnes Scott Trustees. Since 
then she has been one of those de- 
pended on most in advising and help- 
ing. She is now a member of the 
buildings and grounds committee, and 
of the health committee. 


“Who’s Who” records very many in- 
teresting things about Mrs, Inman 
She was born at Liberty, now Bed- 
ford City, Virginia, and is the daugh- 
ter of Alexander Miller and Sarah 
Frances MecPheeters. She received 
her college education at Peace In- 
stitute, Raleigh, N. C., where the A. 


Inman, 


B. degree was conferred on her. In 
1892, she married Mr. Samuel Martin 
Inman, of Atlanta. 


Among the many positions Mrs, In- 
man has held are: President of the 
Atlanta Art Association; vice-presi- 
dent of the Cotton States and Inter- 
national Exposition, held in Atlanta 
in 1895; chairman of Woman’s Com- 
mittee of the Georgia Council of Na- 
tional Defense, vice-chairman of the 
Georgia Council of Defense, director 
of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, 
director for, the Georgia Federation 
of Women’s Clubs, trustee of Agnes 


Accompanist to Shichaneder—Wil-| Jascha Heifetz will be the next artist | Scott College and of University of 


Jard Sketberg. 


to appear in concert, on March 10. 


(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 


the Swimming-Pool-Auditorium! cam- ‘ie , 


the most successful of its history. The| . 


| Mrs, Bull Talks In 


rk % 


Chapel 


: Korea peal er Subject 


Ne ‘Aenee “Scott has grown older 
end her influence has widened, there 
have been’ every” year an increasing 
‘number of girls who could proudly 
says; {My mother graduated ‘from 
Agnes Scott.” It is an honor indeed 
to belon gto the second generation of 
Agnes Scott's daughters and to be a 
part of’the samé school'in which your 
mother: spentiher happy college: days. 
There are many: girls who-ean claim 
that distinetion, but a very few ean 
say, “My mother taught at Agnes 
Scott.” That belongs only to Margaret 
Bull, a member of the Junior ¢lass. 
So, for the reason that she.is the 
mother’ of one of, our girls; that she 
was a member of our faculty twenty- 
five years agv, and that she is her 
own charming} -If, we welcomed Mrs. 
Weak: 
last Tuesday w) .rning. 

Mrs. Bull has oeen a missionary to 
Korea. for many years, working at the 
Kunsan ‘station. In a:~ few, simple 
words, she told of her decision to, be- 
come a missionary. She was teach- 
‘ing here when She heard of the need 


many people whe could teach at Agnes 
Scott. but few who could go to Ko- 
rea. So she elected the difficult 
work of a missionary leaving her 
home for twenty-five years uninter- 
rupted qwork in a foreign field. 
» As one who knows the conditions 
intimately, she showed to us the Ko- 
rean life~of-today under «Japanese 
rule, and she emphasized the great 
longing of the Korean girl for an ed- 
ucation. Listening to her, we real- 
ized that over on the other side of 
the world are girls who are willing 
to pay almost any price for the edu- 
cation and joys which we take as a 
matter of course. Her simple vivid 
words made us question ourselves. 
We wondered how many of us, de- 
termined though we are to serve as 
best we can, are really moved by the 
passionate desire to help others which 
is the ruling force in those girls’ 
lives. She preached no sermon; she 
made no spoken appeal, but she made 
tis feel that others are challenging us 
to be worthy of the great privileges 
and opportunities that we enjoy. Her 
unspoken call to service was more im- 
pressive because it came from one 
who has spent her life in a work, 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Pi Alpha Phi Busy On 
Intercollegiate Subject 


Debates were held in the Propy- 
lean Hall and in the chapel, respec- 
tively, on Wednesday and Thursday 
nights, by members of Pi Alpha Phi. 
Different phases of the intercollegiate 
subject were discussed. On Wednes- 
day night, interesting arguments were 
given for and against the subject: 
“Resolved, That the Selective Immi- 
gration Act of 1924 is for the Best 
Political Interests of the United 
States. The affirmative was sup- 
ported by Ellen Walker and Isabel 
Ferguson; the negative, by Olivia 
Swann and Larsen Mattox. On Thurs- 
day night, the subject of conflict was: 
“Resolved, That the Selective Immi- 
gration Act of 1924 is for the Best 
Social Interests of the United States.” 
The affirmative was sustained by 
Mary. Davis and Eloise Harris, while 
the negative was upheld by Margaret 
Hyatt and Elsa Jacobsen, 

By dint of practice and observa- 
tion our six chosen debaters are get- 
ting much valuable training. With 
eontinued and continual labor, the 
teams are being whipped into fine 
shape and are being well prepared 
for the final conflict. With the loyal 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) 


= ® 


Bull to our chapel: exercises | 


of missionaries in) Korea, and the | 
thought came her that there were} 


Famous Suffragist Speaks On 
Debt of College Students * 


To Future Generations. 
ot 

Glorious things are alwaiys happeri- 
ing to Agnes Scott. One of them was 
the lecture by Mrs. Carrie Chapman 
Catt in the chapel Saturday morn- 
ing. When introducing her, Dr. Me- 
Cain said he did not:need to follow 
the conyention of telling how glad we 
were to have the speaker there.. The 
fact that the college had’ been trying 
for several years to obtain her, ‘at- 
tested that. Nor was‘it necessary to 
tell the audience who-she was, for 
all who pretend to,-be informed aie 
acquainted with, the accomplishments 
of this woman, who was prominent for 
some years before most of the stu- 
dents were born. 

Her most outstanding -work has 
been in the-field of Woman Suffrage, 
to which she has devoted the greater 
part of her life. She organized the 
fowa Woman’s Suffrage Association, 
of which she has been the president 
since 1916. Almost every state which 
has a woman’s ‘suffrage association 
owes her a debt of gratitude for her 
aid in arousing public intreest by lec- 
ture tours, and for her help in organ- 
izing. When she started her cam- 


| paign, “suffragettes” were rather un- 


popular, and opprobrium was attach- 
ed to their name. She is to be all the 
more commended for maintaining her 
position until her efforts were at last 
met with success, when the “Suffrage 
Amendment” was added to our Con- 
stitution in 1919. 

At present Mrs. Catt holds several 
important offices, among them being 
membership in the woman’s commit- 
tee of the Ceuncil for National De- 
fense, President of the International 
Woman’s Suffrage Alliance, and 
President of the American League of 
Women Voters. She has lectured in 
practically every state of the Union, 
and in almost every nation of Europe. 
She is considered one of the best, if 
not the best woman speaker in the 
United States. 

Those who heard her speak Satur- 
day morning do not doubt at all the 
truth of the last statement. A pleas- 
ing and commanding personality is 
joined in her with a charming and 
well modulated voice, and her words 
revealed that she has, as one of the 
students expressed it, “both common 
and uncommon sense.” She has a 
brilliant mind indeed, and spoke to us 
from a wealth of experience, while 
she seasoned her discourse with rare 
humor. 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) 


Vocational Guidance 
Committee Active 


Interesting Stunt In Chapel. 


The Committee on Vocational Guid- 
ance recently formed as a part of the 
Y. W. C. A. organization, sponsored 
a stunt in chapel Thursday night, just 
after prayers. The plot of the stunt 
was as follows: Cupid, searching 
among the Agnes Scott class of '25, 
could find only one vulnerable heart. 
So what could Senior do with the rest 
of her black-robed wards? It was, 
indeed, a problem, but Senior solved 
it well. To some she gave profes- 
sions; to others, business; to still oth- 
ers, social service work, and so on 
until she had well disposed of the en- 
tire group. 


The cast: 

Cupid—Kate Richards. 

The Vulnerable Heart — Mary 
Breedlove. 


Senior—Ruth Harrison. 
Musician—Sarah Curry. 
Judge—Dorothy Keith. 
Teacher—Frances Bitzer. 
Pupil—Anne McCollum, 
Doctors—Mary Anne McKinney, 
Frances Lincoln. 
(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) 


THE 


AGONISTIC 


Student Life In 
Denmark 


atom. One of the first recipierts of 
the Nobel Prize in medicine was the 
young physician, Niels R. Finsen, 
discoverer of the healing rays that 
bear his name. 

Only those who have completed a4 
course of three years in the Gymna- 
sium and have passed what is called 
“studenter examen” can be registered 
as candidates for degrees in the Uni- 
versity; but almost all lectures in the 
University are open to the public. 
When the stu- 
dent enters the University from the 


Gymnasium at the age of 18 or 19, 
he must choose the subject in which 
he wishes to specialize. Only a two- 
term course in philosophy in the first 
year is common to all the students 
working under the five different fac- 
ulties. The student is free to choose 
his own courses and he attends lec- 
tures as he pleases. His work is not 
divided into terms by minor exam- 
inations; his first examination will 
probably come after three years of 
university study. 

It must be remembered that Den- 
mark is only twice the size of the 
State of Massachusetts. From all 
parts of the country, even from dis- 
tant Iceland, students come to the 
University of Copenhagen. There 
may some day be a new university in 
the second city of the country, Aar- 
hus, but today Copenhagen must pro- 
vide for all university students drawn 
from the country’s population of three 
and a quarter millions. More than 
3,500 students and 100 professors are 
occupied from early morning until 
the late afternoon, and in the li- 
braries and laboratories the lights are 
burning until late at night. The Uni- 
versity year begins with Matricula- 
tion Day, early in September, when 
one may see crowds of young men 
and women, the freshmen of the year, 
flocking to the great door of the Uni- 
versity over which for generations 
the celestial eagle has spread her pro- 
tecting wings with equal good will 
toward all her children, from the 
king to the poorest laborer’s son. 

The majority of students live in 
town and only meet at their various 
clubs, chief of which are “the Union” 
and the Students’ Christian Associa- 
tion, for social intercourse and de- 
bates “on life and death and the 
changing mart.” In consequence of 
this, the esprit-de-corps never be- 
comes very pronounced, and the stu- 


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Turning from the gay and crowded 
street that forms the main thorough- 
fare of Copenhagen, the visitor finds 
himself suddenly in a square of sober 
gray buildings, Our Lady’s Church, 
the old Cathedral School, the Uni- 
versity Library, the Bishop’s Palace, 
and the University itself—a modest 
structure bearing the stamp of a time 
when good taste was more abundant 
than money. On this very spot the 
University has been situated since it 
was founded by King Christian I in 
1478, but as this old quarter of the 
city has suffered time and again from 
fire and bombardment in war, the 
present building dates from 1836. 

Only a small part of the Univer- 
sity’s work is carried on in the build- 
ings of our Lady’s Square. Through- 


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The subject of the editorial of the 
Florida Alligator for last week was 
“American Students As a Type.” It 
was based on the observations of 
Conrad Hoffman, alumnus of the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin, and administra- 
tor of the Student Friendship fund in 
Europe. In speaking of colleges of 
America, he says: “A busy-ness ap- 
parent, not so much in the pursuit of 
knowledge in the halls of learning as 
in the extra curricular activities and 
in innumerable organizations. . 
Selfish, self-indulgent, provincial, 
some accuse. Yes! But—there are no 
students in the world more responsive 
to appeals for help and to moral 
values.” 


Margaret Edmondson .o.... 


REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


Clyde Passmore, ’25 
Janet McDonald, ’28 
Emily Ehrlich, ’27 
Nellie Richardson, ’26 
Martha Turner, ’28 


Caroline Essig, ’28 

Julia Pope, ’25 

Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
Emily Jones, '26 


out the city and even beyond its bor- 
ders, the University has its various 
scientific institutions. Instructing the 
students is but one side of the Uni- 
versity’s program. The scientific re- 
search which Denmark contributes to 
world culture is really the more im- 


The Tech Marionettes have been 
engaged to play the mob scene from 
“The Fool,” which is to be given by 
the Lyric Players. A realistic fight 
must be staged, and will make neces- 
sary some good acting on the part 
of the Tech men. This is an excel- 
lent opportunity for the Marionettes 
to gain practical stage experience. 


DO WE VALUE OUR LIBRARY? 

portant part, even though it may oc- 
casionally escape general observation 
by being concealed in the language 
of a small people. Of course a topic 
of local interest needs only expres- 
sion in Danish; but Danish research 
seeks to a great extent hospitality 
abroad in the scientific journals of 
the civilized world. Thus a knowl- 
edge of the country and university 
is spread and prepares the way for 
Danish students who go out into the 
world to be received by foreign scien- 
tists to whom Danish research is not 
unknown. The University of Copen- 
hagen has the traditional five fac- 
ulties—philosophy, science and math- 
ematics, medicine, law and theology: 


An old brick building with flowers blooming at its doorway, 
a haunt of peace and calm, an ivy-covered library—what would 
any college be without one? Amid its rows and rows of books, 
whisper the voices of ages past, the message of a Shakespeare, 
a Newton, a Frederick the Great, a Schubert. There we may 
live in the “Never, Never Land” of imagination, sheltered by 
books, dark green ones, brown ones, red, blue, lavender, white ones, 
frorn the reality of living. There we may learn the lore of the 
sages, “‘the best that has been thought and said in the world.” 
There, to be more practical, Freshmen and Sophomores pass hur- 
riedly through the heat of extensive note-taking, Juniors chatter 
in the various rooms concerning elective subjects, and Seniors 
“browse” about with luxuriant leisure. Within its walls we dis- 
cover what the Egyptians knew hundreds of years before Christ, 


Tech students, also, had the priv- 
ilege of hearing Mr. Paul Blanshard 
speak on labor conditions. “The 
Technique” heartily imdorses Mr. 
Blanshard’s views on this question and 
adds: “As future leaders in industry 
and commerce, Tech men should real- 
ize that labor must be helped from 
above; that it should be granted the 
right of collective bargaining in or- 
der to deal with capital on the same 
plane. ... We can and should take 
three preliminary steps and rest as- 
sured that they are in the right di- 
rection: The eight-hour day, an en- 
forced child-labor law, and finally, a 
living wage.” 


and, also, who was killed this morning on the outskirts of Atlanta, 
and what the attitude of Japan is toward America’s restriction of 
Immigration. A college without a library! Such, indeed, is be- 
yond the scope of our imagination. 

A library is an indispensable asset to a good college, and as such, 
one would suppose that students would appreciate it and guard 
it as among their chief treasures. But alas, thoughtless, selfish, 
inconsistent youth; it throws away the very thing it needs. Far 
from guarding our library, there are those among our number. 
who continually and deliberately attempt to destroy it, and to 
clog the wheels of its machinery. Books disappear, especially in 


The 
Polytechnical Institute are independ- 
ent seats of learning on equal foot- 
ing with the University. 
tion of the University in the capital 
is of the greatest advantage to the 
medical faculty, its students 
able to profit by the teachings of 
specialists who are at once practic- 
ing physicians and surgeons as well 
as professors in the University. Rigs- 
hospitalet (State 


dents are swallowed up in the city 
and assimilated by society. This is 
all the more true, as many of them, 
to eke out a slender purse, take up 
some work while still pursuing their 
studies, and so slip into the ranks of 
useful citizens, losing that character 
of the boyish “undergrad” which is 
more easily preserved in a rollegiate 
commonwealth. There are indeed cer- 
tain very old “dormitories” where the 
student may live during the full 
course of his University work, five or 
six years. He must win admission 
to these by good work during his 


Agricultural College and the 


The posi- 


being 


Hospital), with a 


first year, and once admitted he has 
no fee to pay; he may even be grant- 
ed a small stipend. Here is develop- 
ed a pronounced spirit of community 
loyalty. Such dormitories are Val- 
kendorf’s Collegium, Borch’s Colle- 
gium, founded in 1689, Elers’ Colle- 
gium, founded in 1691, and Regensen, 
founded in 1569. Regensen is the 
most famous of these student courts 
and houses, and of them all has tak- 
en the most significant part in the 
history of Denmark. 
(To Be Continued) 


thoroughly modern equipment, is in 
its whole construction a training hos- 
pital. There are also the Finsen 
Light Institute and the various labo- 
ratories connected with the medical 
school. The training of the medical 
student lasts on an average eight 
years, including a period of twelve 
months’ uninterrupted service at a 
hospital. The study of arts extends 
over a period of about seven years 
and that of theology and law of six 
years. Among the teachers of the 
philosophical faculty, students of lin- 
guistics will be familiar with the 
great scholar in English, Professor 
Otto Jespersen, who has twice lec- 


time of greatest demand. Recently an English-French dictionary 
has been removed, and one volume of an encyclopedia set. This 
volume cannot be replaced without buying the whole set, which 
costs one hundred and sixty dollars. Modern books go faster than 
others. One would simply be appalled to know the number of 
books that have disappeared unaccountably, since our library was 
founded. Dishonesty? The worst kind, for it not only steals the 
property of another, but it deprives students of one of the priv- 
ileges for which they come to college. Another and more general 
practice in the abusing of our library, is the defacing of books 


and magazines by underlining, drawing pictures, adorning faces, 
etc. Underlining is unfair in that it gives the next user of the 


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book an advantage in finding the most important ideas or else 
throws him on a false track. Drawing pictures, adding details to 
the features of heroes’ faces, writing remarks expressive of one’s 
feeling on being through with a certain chapter, are babyish 
habits, which detract from the dignity of the subject and from 
the attention of the would-be student. 
ness, but thoughtlessness which tends to destroy our library by 
removing and defacing books is unbearable. 


Go into the German room of the library some sunny afternoon 
of this spring and sit at the table with your back toward the 


eampus. Now tilt your chair, clasp your hands behind your head 


and look up. In the globe of the electric light you will see a won- 
derful sight. A miniature of a part of our campus, Agnes Scott 
glorified. It is as though you look into a magic crystal, for the 
bricks of Main are bright red and shining, the grass is be- 
witchingly green, and the figures on the campus are vivacious and 
picturesque. It is the dream-college of our high school days. And, 
indeed, Agnes Scott could be, would be, a dream-college were it 
not for the obstinate thoughtlessness in what we deem little 
things, of us who make our college what it is. 


It may all be thoughtless- 


tured in America, on the last occa- 
sion receiving an honorary doctor’s 
degree from Columbia University. On 
the staff of the faculty of science 
and mathmeties we find Professor Ar- 
nold Krogh, recipient of the Nobel 
Prize for the year 1921, who in the 
months of October and November lec- 
tured at Yale University and in sev- 
eral American cities. The chair in 
plant physiology is held by Profes- 
sor W. Johannsen, author of the 
Theory of Descent, an experimental 
physiologist of no small repute. An 
Institute for Theoretical Physics has 
some years ago been completed, pro- 
viding an up-to-date laboratory for 
Professor Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize- 
man for the year 1922. Since 1913 
he has been working on some new. 
principles for discovering the com- 
bination of the atom and hitherto has 
succeeded in ascertaining the nature 
and the spectrum of the hydrogen 


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AGONISTIC 


GIDDTE ) GOSSIP 


Thursday Night. 
Dear Giddy :— 
- Giddy, you are a most exacting per- 
Here you go and get sick and 
leave all the writing to my side again. 
No! I’m not afraid I'll catch flue 
or mumps or lockjaw or whatever you 


son! 


have from your letters, but I guess 
maybe I ought to do 
writing in a case like this—but it 
seems logical to me that you’d have 
more time to write than I do. But I 
won’t fuss at you any more, old dear, 
‘cause you're sick and really I’m ter- 
ribly sorry. Why once down here so 
many people had flu that the whole 
infirmary was full and they had to 
send for another nurse and some ex- 
‘tra beds for people to sleep in. I 
didn’t lose my head and take it 
tho—I’m more sensible than that. 
Giddy, you remember what I said 
about Juanita Grier—well, it wasn’t 
her at all—it was Hazel Huff. 
sorry I got it mixed up, Giddy. 
I went to church in town last week 
with Martha Childress, Reba Boyless 
and Roberta Winter. Well, we got 
along fine till the man came around 
to take up the collection. When the 
plate passed Ro, she kinda leaned 


most of the 


I’m 


over it and dropped in a nickel or a 
dime or something and just as she 
did the man leaned over to her and 
said real low: “Un-hum! I caught you 
that time.” Well, don’t you imagine 
Ro felt funny? She nearly died and 
we did too. We just laughed and 
laughed tho ’cause we knew all the 
time that she’d put in a dime. 

The funniest thing happened this 
morning that you’ve ever heard of— 
we had oranges at the table and Mar- 
garet Edmondson asked somebody to 
pass her the sugar and one of the 
girls said: “Oh do you eat sugar on 
your orange too? They all laugh at 
me when I do, and I’m so glad some- 
body agrees with me.” And Margaret 
said, “Yes, I surely do like it,” and 
she glanced up at the girl and as she 


did, the sugar bowl tipped over and 
—why you couldn’t ever see the 
orange at all, there was so much sug- 
ar over it. Everybody laughed so 
long and so much that we were sure 
Miss Hopkins was going to hold up 
her hand, but she didn’t, and poor 
Margaret was a wreck—not because 
Miss Hopkins didn’t put her hand up, 
but because of the sugar episode. 
Would you eéall that a coincident, 
Giddy? 

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Norris and Elizabeth Cole? 
They’re not exactly the 
’cause Virginia weighs the most. Well, 
the other day over in gym class, Vir- 
ginia ran into Elizabeth or Elizabeth 
ran into forgotten 
which), and just completely floored 
Virginia. That’s literal too, because 
she fainted and they had to pour H O 
(chémical influence) on her and give 
her N H 3 and run all the other girls 
out before she got her equilibrium 
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and just the same, 

You notice how I’ve taken to chem- 
Well, I’ve de- 
cided I'll major in chemistry. There’re 
lots of nice things connected with it 
and I heard the other day that Mr. 
Holt was having all the Seniors who 
are majoring in it over to his house 
to dinner. That must be grand al- 
right. (I knew it’s supposed to be 
“all right,” but I like “alright” bet- 
ter.) 

TI must study now, but I hope your 
flu will be better when you write 
me next time. 


ical terms, don’t you? 


Sleepily, 
AGGIE. 


MRS. BULL TALKS IN CHAPEL 


(Continoed from Page 1, Column 4) 
which from a financial point of view 
is a failure, but from a spiritual, pays 
one hundred per cent dividends. 

We are proud to have had with us 
an old member of our faculty, and 
we are thankful for the inspiration 
which she gave us. 


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With Jetta Goudal and Godfrey Tearle 


DR. CHARLES K. EDMUNDS 
LECTURES AT COLLEGE 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 
itive methods, is extensively carried 
on. Here, the dry method of farming 

is used. 

A person traveling in China will be 
particularly impressed with two facts. 
One is the poverty of the people; an- 
other, the absolute lack of forests. As 
a result of the using up of the for- 
ests, great floods and droughts are 
frequent. The Yellow river has 
changed its course, sweeping over a 
fan-shaped area with radius of three 
hundred miles, making an angle of 
about sixty degrees. This, of course, 
resulted in the greatest damage to 
life and property in the history of 
China, but similar oecurrences on a 
smaller scale happen many times 
yearly. : 


The ingeniousness of the Chinese 
is humorously illustrated in the meth- 
od they use to cross small rivers in 
the north. A traveler carries with him 
a pig skin. When he reaches a riv- 
er, he removes his clothes, blows up 
the skin, and blithely floats across. 


China’s Grand Canal is the oldest 
in the world. It was begun in the 
first century of the Christian era, 
and completed in the 13th century. 
The moving of the capital from 
Nanking to Peking occasioned its 
completion, for the emperor preferred 
rice grown in central China to that 
of the north. This brought up the 
question of a practical waterway. The 
Grand Canal was the result. 


Some of the most interesting pic- 
tures shown were of the limestone 
pinnacles along the eastern water 
boundary of Human. These follow the 
river for one hundred miles, rising 
like huge cones, of all shapes and 
sizes. Their whiteness, the green 
shrubs at their base, and the blue 
river flowing in front, make a most 
picturesque scene. 


The Chinese, using most primitive 
methods, have built remarkable con- 
crete bridges, suspension bridges of 
wood of great length, and have, in a 
very small way, utilized a little of 
their extensive water power. When 
modern inventions and general educa- 
tion reach China, and penetrate to its 
heart, development will be so vast 
that the mind is unable to conceive of 
the result. 

Education of the masses is China’s 
most vital necessity today. A public 
school system was begun in 1905, and 
rapid progress has been made. There 
are now 150,000 teachers and 700,000 
pupils enrolled in China’s schools. 
This awakening of China offers a 
wonderful opportunity for service to 
American Christians. 


GLEE CLUB GIVES CONCERT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 
Pirkle, Gertrude Henry, Vera Hick- 
man, Ruth Thomas, Helen Bates, 
Mary Reviere and Mary Brown. 

Synopsis 

A compan yof amateur singers 
have had a somewhat peculiar expe- 
rience in endeavoring to meet the re- 
quirements of a certain professor who 
wished to get up a concert. 

Being left in the lurch by the pro- 


Week 
March 


nd 


There are people who will sympathize with a girl starv- 
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Athletic News 


The holiday (February 21st) found 
two enthusiastic groups of Agnes 
Scotters encamped at Stone Moun- 
tain. A crowd of faculty members, 
consisting of Misses Randolph, Gault, 
Sinclair, Cole, Morton, Brown, Pirkle 
and Bland stayed at the Venable cot- 
tage. Just across the lake, a group 
of students enjoyed life at Pine 
Lodge. 

The two camps were quite friendly. 
Within twenty-four short hours, 
neighborly calls were made and re- 
turned. Miss Brown, Miss Pirkle and 
Miss Bland took supper with the 
girls, and the other members of the 
faculty party came over to Pine Lodge 
for the evening. Misses Brown and 
Pirkle even spent the night, acting 
as chaperons. 

Early on Saturday morning the stu- 
dents visited the faculty. After danc- 
ing a while, everyone went out to 
hunt planaria. (Planaria are worms 
used in the Biology lab.) Miss Pirkle 
and Miss Brown were lucky in secur- 
ing so many diligent collectors. At 
any rate, there were enough planaria 
in lab. on Monday. 


Each camper had a delightful time, 
and considered the holiday well spent. 
The George Washington Scott din- 
ner, however, was too great a tempta- 
tion, so everyone returned to the col- 
lege for Saturday night’s festivities. 

The students who went on the camp 
were: Frances McColgan and her vis- 
itor, Miss Bernice Lilley, of Brenau; 
Cleo MecLaurine, Virginia Sevier, 
Nancy Crowther, Margaret Hyatt, 
Mary P. Brown, Dorothy Harper, 
Frances New and Lila Porcher. 


fessor, who has taken himself out of 
town “till the matter blows over,” 
the ladies honorably come forward 
and explain to the audience just how 
the thing happened. The musical in- 
terest of the piece culminates in the 
final combination of the six inde- 
pendent songs with the Gounod “Sere- 
nade.” 
Members 

First Sopranos — Misses Ruth 
Drane, Virginia Miller, Annie John- 
son, Mary Reviere, Lillian Middle- 
brooks, Edith Brown and Mary Me- 
Callum. 


Second Sopranos—Misses Helen 
Bates, Martha Johnston, Grace 
Etheredge, Vera Hickman, Verna 


Clark, Lillian Clement, Mary Free- 
man, Jennie Lynn DuVall, and Emily 
Cope. 

First Contraltos—Misses Frances 
Bitzer, Gertrude Henry, Ruth Thomas, 
Nell Hillhouse and Mary Crenshaw. 

Second Contraltos—Misses Mary 
Brown, Ruth Pirkle, Mable Dumas, 
Mable Daniels, Hazel Huff, Margaret 
Neel and Frances Gardner. 

Accompanist—Elizabeth Northfleet. 

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MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 
ADDRESSES AGNES SCOTT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 
The theme of her speech was that 


we are what we are on account of our 
grandparents, and that we owe it to 
future generations to do as much 
for them as past generations have 
done for us. According to the thegry 
which scientists have advanced. since 
the war, we as college students have 
either “A” or “B-plus” minds. It js 
ah duty, therefore, to lead those who 
are ‘hot able to receive benefit from 


college, those who have “C” minds. |’ 
To this class, Mrs. Catt said, ‘many 


Congressmen belong, and she ¥elated 
several amusing incidents to ‘support 
her point: * 

Too many of us who Are sortiniste 
enough to attend college accept the 
situation too complacently, and are 
ignorant of the hard uphill fight’ our 
grandparents had in order to secure 
for us this advantage. Before the 
Revolution, girls were not sent to 
any schools at’ all until a movement 
was started to gét “schools for shes.” 
After a battle, girls were allowed to 
attend boys’ schools during vacation 
or before the opening hour in the 
morning: Even when seminaries for 
girls had been established, however, 
there was much controversy over 
what subjects:the girls should be al- 
lowed to take Geography was ob- 
jected to on the grounds that it would 
be of no use to women, unless .and 
then perhaps, some of them should 
marry missionaries. When Troy Sem- 
inary of New York introduced algebra | 
and geometry into the curriculum, 
there was a furor, and ministers even 
argued from their pulpits, on the one 
hand that woman’s mind could not 
grasp mathematics, and, on the other, 
that they might become so enamored 
with geometry that, after they were 
married, they would devote so much 
time to solving geometric problems 
that they would neglect their chil- 
dren. Physiology was another subject 
which was looked on with disfavor. 
When it finally did begin to be taught 
to girls, heavy paper was pasted over 
all the pictures of the human anat- 
omy, for it was regarded immodest 
for a girl to see them. 

We owe the fact that “every boy 
and girl in the United States who 
wants a college education can have it 
on equal terms” to the struggles of | 
our grandparents. Their work also 
paved the way for woman enfran- 
chisement. The United States was 
not as progressive in this line as in 
others, for “24 other nations gave the 
vote to their women before this na- 
tion did.” Due to the efforts of our 
grandparents, women may now enter 
the professions. At the present time, 
their opportunity is almost equal to| 
that of the men. 

With all our advantages, we owe 
much to future generations. As Mrs. 
Catt said, “With the vote, everything 


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is your affair; with an education, 
more than everything is your affair.” 
The standard we should adopt is 
stated in the preamble of our Consti- 
“to promote the common wel- 
fare.” Some of the steps by which 
this may be done is by the promotion 
of peace instead of war; the wiping 
out of illiteracy; the education of ig- 
norant literates; and the elimination 
of child labor. 

Mrs. Catt concluded her inspiring 
and enlightening talk by some advice 
gleaned from her own rich experi- 
ence. We must not fear to stand 
alone when on account of our supe- 
rior advantages. we perceive the truth 
in advance of the ‘common herd.” 
‘We must stand firm and help the rest 
‘of the world “wabble to our position,” 
which it will always do in the end. 

The prolonged applause which 
burst forth at the end of Mrs. Catt's 


‘speech showed:to what extent she had 


impressed us and gained our favor. 
She spoke in Atlanta Sunday after- 
noon, and reserved seat tickets for 
Scott We 


the Agnes community. 


shall be only too pleased if Mrs. Catt |, 
.|ever has the opportunity of speaking 


here again. 


MRS. S..M. INMAN, TRUSTEE 


‘(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


Georgia War Memorial Fund. 
In addition to these things listed in 
“Who’s Who,” Mrs. Inman has done 


much work in Atlanta. There 
hardly any civic, educational or re- 
ligious enterprise that does not want 
her to have the leading place in ‘it. 
She is president of the Southern 
Women’s Educational Alliance of the 
Atlanta district, and director for the 
national organization of the alliance. 
Mrs. Inman has done more than any 
other in Atlanta in advocating the 
erection of an art center here. She 
was one of the principal sponsors for 
the Grand Central Gallery Art Ex- 
hibit in Atlanta last spring. 

Mrs. Inman is recognized as the 
most prominent woman in Atlanta. 
She was unanimously given the place 
as Atlanta’s first citizen and she has 
maintained that place. Evidence of 
this is the fact that she was given 


is 


| the certificate of distinction by the 


Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in 
January for having rendered best 
service to her community during the 
past year. 

Mrs. Inman is a member of the So- 
ciety of Colonial Dames, the D. A. R., 
Atlanta Woman’s Club and York’s 
Club, New York. She isa member of 
the First Presbyterian church of At- 
lanta. 


; 3 3 ‘correctness and artistry of her draw- 
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Day Student News 


LUMINARIES SHINING OUT 
THE DAY STUDENT 
ORGANIZATION 


Mary Ben is our star actress, able 
to depict any role with equal ease and 
inimitable dramatic ability. 

Ruth Liggin 1s our star debater, ri- 
valing Patrick Henry in oratory. Just 
get her started, and she’ll argue ‘your 
last hair pin away! 

Marguerite Burnley is our star in 
the matrimonial firmanent. She 
knows on which side of her bread 
there is plenty of butter. 

Lucile Phippin and Mary Cunning- 
ham are our star athletes—just 
watch ‘them balling out anything! 


Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson“is our}: 


star artist—appointments made thret 
weeks in' advance for sittings! Mar- 
garet Lotspeich will ‘vouch for’ the 


ings, 
The L’il Smith girls, Mary and 
Sarah, are our star gloom-dispellers. 


“Really?” Yes truly! 


Jo Anne Cox is our star sensational 
conversationalist. Any subject dis- 


‘cussed. with any number of thrilling 
details, furnished on 


request. The 
Georgian would go out of business if 
Jo Anne broadcasted! ‘ 

Sarah Fullbright and Martha Jack- 
son are our star Latin readers. The 
Romans themselves could not have 
translated their own works as well 
as they do! And Martha has already 
begun training the youth of the na- 
tion in Decatur, 

Juanita Greer is our star collector. 
Moral—bring your budget. promptly! 

Frances Moore is our star poet. 
Anyone who heard her as Frances 


Seott Key knows that she “just 
oozes poetry.” , 
And other stars — temporarily 


minus public illumination, but their 
radiance is ever perceptible. 


SUB-DIVISION OF DEBATING 
TEAMS FINALLY MADE 


Final decision has been reached as 
to the four girls who will compose 
Agnes Scott’s debating teams this 
year, and will meet the teams of 
Randolph-Macon and Sophie New- 
comb on March 20. On the affirma- 
tive, which will debate Sophie New- 
comb at Agnes Scott, are Isabel 
Ferguson and Catherine Graeber, with 
Larsen Mattox as alternate. The 
negative team, Pocahontas Wight and 
Dorothy Keith, with Eloise Harris as 
alternate, debates Randolph-Macon in 


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One definition of a professor—A 
professor is a man who condescends 
to take a few classes while formulat- 
ing epoch-making changes in the 
world. 


“Why does Shrop always drink 
twice?” : 

“One drink makes him feel like’ an- 
other man, and he has to treat the 


other, man.” 


If woman wasn't artificial 


she 
wouldn’t be natural. ; 


The Southern Collegian, back about 
1875 perpetrated such jokes as this: 

(In English) “Who killed the most 
poultry ?” 

“Hamlet’s father, a he did murder 
‘most foul.” 


‘Good girls should love their brothers, ie 
i, But some so good have grown, 
{That they love fraternity brothers ° 


Better than they do their own, 


“Father dear,” wrote Charlie from 
Lynchburg, “I enclose my hotel bill.” 


“Dear Charlie,” wrote the father, |, 


“Im enclosing a check, but please 
don’t buy up any more hotels at that 
I think they are robbing you.” 


“IT hear there’s one thing that keeps 
Henry out of Paul Whiteman’s or- 
chestra.” 

“What's. that?” 

“Paul Whiteman.” 


Lynchburg. Pocahontas Wight and 
Isabel Ferguson are the only mem- 
bers of the taem who are experienced 
in intercollegiate debating, but A. S. 
C. expects excellent work of all six. 
The subject for the debate is: Re- 
solved: “That the American Immi- 
gration Act of 1924 is for the Best 
Interest of the United States.” 

As the question is a peculiarly live 
one at the present time, and as the 
triangular debates are always occa- 
sions of great interest in the three 
colleges concerned, March 20 holds in 
store for us one of the greatest thrills 


of the college year. The intercol- 


legiate debates are doubly significant 
in that dcvaung is the only ultra- 


curriculum activity wherein Agnes 
Seott contests with other colleges, 
with the exception of dramatics, which 
have found a place with us as an _ in- 
tercollegiate activity only this year. 


MR. RILEY SCOTT AT COLLEGE 
(Continued frcm Page 1, Column 2) 
plimented with a poem to the Geor- 
gia girl, picturesquely called “The 
Georgia Rose,” and the author said 
that he supposed the poem was more 
popular at boys’ than at girls’ 
schools. In a whimsical tone, Mr. 
Scott read “Elizabeth,” dedicated to 
his faithful car, a companion that 
he would not malign with so un- 
worthy a name as “Lizzie.” Al- 
though this poem was written in a 
light strain, there was a serious un- 
dercurrent depicting the characteris- 
tics of a true friend. Mr. Scott, who 
says that he-cares for no more money 
than to live on, wrote a poem of con- 
tempt for the luxuries of that mil- 
lionaire who does not have a love for 
nature and mankind. Perhaps one 
of the best poems read was a prayer, 
which has been published in readers 
for school children, and which ex- 
presses the desire to live simply, but 
usefully. 

In conclusion, Mr, Scott left an op- 
timistic note by telling a joke about 
an old man who always consoled his 
friends in trouble by saying, “Well, it 
mought ‘a’ been worse.” Even when 
a man had fallen out of a window, 
breaking his neck, Ezra gave solace 
to the family in the usual way. One 
of the neighbors, having become tired 
of the old man’s philosophy, asked 
how it could have been worse when 
the man was killed. Ezra immediate- 
ly replied that the man could have 
fallen on the neighbor and have 
broken his neck too. So Mr. Scott 
urged that when we have trouble we 
remember that it might have been 
worse. 

Upon the request of some of the 
students, Mr. Scott sold copies of his 
poems the next morning after chapel. 


“Why is a flapper like a bungzs 
low?” 

Answer—“‘Front painted, 
shingled, and no. upper story,” 


back 


Remember That Ditch 
Visitor—‘Why the’ trench in one 
of Washington college?” 


“Frosh—They are, alee 
against an attack of the U..D. C’s.” . 


Get your loving while you may, 
For time will soon bring sorrow. 
Alas, the flappers of today 
Are the chaperons of tomorrow. 


“Who is the meanest man in the 
world?” 


“T don’t know.” 


‘The prison warden who put a tack 
in the electric chair.” 


‘Mother—“Son, your grades aren't 
so good the second term.” 

Son—‘No,, you see everything was 
marked down after holidays.” 


A dream that you are fighting in 
Russia means that you are in a very 
disorderly state.’ 


Minister, after service, at church 
door—“Why, I am so glad to see you 
out tonight.” 


“Yes sir, I am glad to get out.” 


PI ALPHI PHI BUSY ON INTER- 
COLLEGIATE SUBJECT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 
support and hearty cooperation of Pi 
Alpha Phi and the college community 
as a whole, those who are to uphold 
the glory of Agnes Scott may well be 


confident of bearing away the 
trophies on that much-heralded 
March 20, 

The six are Pocahontas Wight, 


Eloise Harris, Larsen Mattox, Isabel 
Ferguson, Dorothy Keith and Cathe 
erine Graeber. 


VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE COM- 
MITTEE ACTIVE 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 

Nurse—Mary Keesler. 

Social Service Worker—Eugenia 
Thompson. 

Little Girl—Isabel McCain. 

Y. W..C. A. Secretary—Anne Mc- 
Kay. 

Church 
Speake. 

Interior Decorator—Ellen Walker. 

Business Woman—Emily Spivey. 


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’ Three Ring Circus 
Crowd| Catt Speaks In Atlanta 


Draws 


Proceeds Go To Fund For 
New Gymnasium 


Every city and village has its an- 
nual circus with a big three-ring tent 
show and numerous side attractions. 
Even the cultural atmosphere of 
Agnes Scott College could not over- 
come this inherent love of clowns and 
cowboys. Therefore, in order to sat- 
isfy this natural desire of the spec- 
‘tacular and mysterious, the best com- 
pany on the globe, The A. S. C. Ath- 
letie Association, decided to favor the 
college community with one perform- 
ance. 

On Friday morning the big circus 
began moving on to the campus, and 
many freshmen attempted to play 
“hooky” in order to see the great train 
unload. At noon the majestic parade 
took place. The procession began at 
the gym and proceeded along Library 
Way to Science Square, thence down 
Inman avenue and back through the 
business section of Main street to 
the cireus grounds. Not a thing was 
lacking from this review of the en- 
tire carnival; there were the ever- 
present steam organs, cages and cages 
of wild animals, funny-faced clowns 
and desperate looking bare-back 
riders. 

Then on Saturday night at seven 
o’clock free attraction skits were held. 
The world-famous Gene Dozier 
danced; Mary Knight and Jo Douglas 
displayed their ability as “kings-of- 
tumble-land;” while for a romantic ap- 


pictured us Hawaii with its ukuleles 
and guitars. 

Next came the big circus! The 
grounds were covered with booths of 
red lemonade and “hot-dogs.” There 
were numerous side-show attractions; 
The menagerie; the heayweight 
champion; the fat lady; but best of 
all, the swimming match for freshmen 
only. Between acts a _ tight-rope 
walker and Italian couple dance held 
the attention of everyone. Clowns 
with big feet and white faces strolled 
here and there, while people after peo- 
ple waited for a ride on the merry-go- 
round, 

Gypsy fortune tellers told many 
amazing truths concerning future ca- 
reers. And the realm of the mysteri- 
ous was brought vividly to the eyes of 
those who chose to visit the magic 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Miss Harn Elected Vice- 
President of the Johns 
Hopkins Society 


A few weeks ago, Agnes Scott had 
another honor conferred upon her by 
the election of Miss Harn to the Vice- 
Presidency of the Johns Hopkins So- 
ciety of Georgia. This Society, com- 
prised of the Alumni of Johns Hop- 
kins who are residents of Georgia, 
held their annual meeting at the 
Georgian Terrace on February 28. 
The most interesting feature of the 
evening was the address by Dr. 
Charles K. Edmonds, who on the eve- 
ning before had charmed and enter- 
tained us by his splendid lecture on 
China. Dr. Edmonds who was for 
more than twenty years the Presi- 
dent of Canton Christian College in 
Canton, China, is now Provost of 
Johns Hopkins. He spoke of its work, 
and illustrated his talk with stereop- 
ticon views of the university. Having 
heard Dr. Edmonds ourselves, we can 
realize how delightful the meeting 
must have been. 

The officers elected at the busi- 
ness meeting of the club were Presi- 
dent, Dr. Dalmon; Vice-President, 
Miss Harn; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. 
Green. Agnes Scott is very proud of 
the honor which has come to Miss 
Harn, and we congratulate her most 
sincerely upon it. 


Athletic Board Brings Circus 
To A. S.C. Saturday, March 7 Script Dance Mar. II 


——|Proceeds 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925 


Mrs. Carrie Chapman 


Famous Suffragist Leader Talks 
On Women and World Peace 


Many Agnes Scott girls took ad- 
vantage of Mrs. Carrie Chapman 
Catt’s talk at Loew’s Grand in At- 
lanta on Sunday afternoon, March 1. 
She was equally as well received at 
this appearance as at our college 
on the previous Saturday. This, as 
all who heard her know, betokens 
maximum appreciation. Mrs. Catt 
spoke on “Woman, and her Relation 
to World Peace.” 


She stated that the old theory for 
keeping peace was to maintain so 
large an army that trouble makers 
were frightened off. As we all know, 
that age old theory has in no way 
prevented war. It is now time to 
discard the old and try the modern 
theory of a League of Nations and 
World Court. 


A point that Mrs. Catt made, and 
one which was touched with her char- 
acteristic humor, was that the Unit- 
ed States furnished all of the ex- 
cellent ideas for the League and 
World Court, yet, the other nations 
are profiting by our ideas and we 
are on the outside of all of our own 
schemes. Furthermore, all of the 
first nations have joined the League. 
We are left outside of the working 
order of our own ideas in company 
with such nations as Turkey. 

Mrs. Catt stated that the United 
States will never become a member 


of the lieague as loRe as the ques- 


tion is a partisan matter. The Re- 
publicans will never vote for the 
Democrat in order to put over the 
League, nor will the Republican ever 
enter a Democrat plank in his plat- 
form. The League question must be 
removed from American polities if 
the United States is to be factor in 
World Peace. 


Two Clubs Elect New 
Members 


Blackfriars and Folio Announce 
New Members 


The second semester Blackfriar 
tryouts were held Monday night, 
March 2. About forty girls tried 
out, so that it was hard to choose 
the fice who should have the thrill 
of becoming a member. Finally, how- 
ever, the committee chose the fol- 
lowing five: Louise Smith, Catherine 
Johnson, Mary Sayward, Josephine 
Walker and Frances Chambers. 

Also, we are glad to have Larson 
Mattox as honorary member. It was 
decided that Blackfriars needed wait- 
ers as well as actresses, so Larson 
was voted a member. 

Invitations were held Friday aft- 
ernoon at 5 o’clock. All of us, new 
members, as well as old, got a thrill 
out of it, and the new members were 
cordially welcomed to our midst. 

With this initiation five good 
actresses have ben added to our flock, 
and we know that they can do many 
fine things for Blackfriars, both in 
the way of acting and a'so by their 
hearty support and cooperation. 

Folio met with Miriam Preston on 
March 4, to discuss the seven try- 
outs, which had been submitted. 
Josephine Walker, Emily Kingsberry, 
Virginia Norris, and Dorothy Harper 
were elected to membership. The 
club was quite pleased with the try- 
outs as a whole, and had a hard time 
in deciding about some of the stories 
—Jo’s “The Luck of Mike,” Emily’s 
“The Call of the Wild,” Virginia’s 
“The Minute Hand,” and Dorothy’s 
“Bow of Blue” are the stories upon 
which these girls won membership 
in Folio. Initiations will be held 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Cotillion Club Gives 


To Go 


Gymnasium Fund 


To 


A script dance will be given in the 
gymnasium by Cotillion Club Thurs- 
day, March 11, from 7:00 to 8:00 p. m. 
The proceeds obtained from the dance 
will be added to the fund for the new 
gymnasium, which is now in the pro- 
cess of erection. The whole campus 
community is invited to come and 
“banish dull care away.” 

The posters in Main and in the 
library to herald this event are most 
intriguing. Graceful silhouettes, Jap- 
anese lanterns, misty rainbow colors— 
yellow, blue, green, rose, lavender— 
give promise of airy, fantastic pleas- 
ures in store for us. Aside from these 
delightful suspicions, we are given 
the more definite pledge of certain 
entertainment. Katherine Richards 
and Josephine Huntley are to tango in 
costume, and Eugenie Dozier, famed 
on the campus and abroad as well for 
the grace and beauty of her dancing, 
will charm those present by giving 
a dance of Old Spain. Music will be 
furnished by an orchestra composed 
of members of the student body. Mar- 
garet Gholston, Mildred Morrow, 
Bryte Danie] and Pauline MeLeod 
will “tickle the ivories”; Evalyn Pow- 
ell is to beat the drum; other girls 
will play the ukuleles and banjoes. 

The occasion holds forth every as- 
surance of pep and jollity. The or- 
chestra promises three no-breaks and 
quite a number of choice popular se- 
lections. All will be merriment and 
laughter. 

Now is your chance to defy the 
laws of pschology by doing two things 
at one time. 

Come out and dance “aiid make’ th 
fund for the new gymnasium grow. 
The admission fee is only twenty-five 
eents. All of this merry sport and 
play for only a quarter! Don’t lose 
your opportunity to do something 
unique, but forget notes and other 
work for a time and come out Wednes- 
day night and help build our new gym- 
nasium by dancing. 


Classical Club Gives 
Greek Bazaar 


To Ratse Money For Greek 
Refugees 


The Greek bazaar given by the 
Classical Club all day Friday in 
Propylean Hall was quite an inter- 
esting and worthy event. 

The bazaar was sponsored by ‘he 
Classical students on our campus, in 
order that they might do their bit in 
the great work the “American 
Friends of Greece” are doing for 
Greece. “The American Friends of 
Greece” is a society formed after the 
expulsion of the Greeks from Smyrna. 

Its membership is made up of 
America’s most prominent college 
men and women. Of these members, 
perhaps the most important, at least, 
those best known at Agnes Scott are: 
Dr. Charles Thwing, who was here 
last fall in the interests of Phi Beta 
Kappa, Henry Noble McCracken, 
president of Vassar; Dr. Ester Love- 
joy, chairman of American Women’s 
Hospital; Andrew Brodie, National 
Representative of The Near East Re- 
lief; Rt. Rev. James Cannon, Jr., 
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South; Rt. Rev. Freeman, 
Bishop of the Episcopal Church, and 
Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi, Central and 
Free Synagogues, New York. The so- 
ciety has as its purpose the provid- 
ing of a means of support for the 
women and girls who form 60 per cent 
of the 1,500,000 refugees settled in 
Greece since the expulsion from Asia 
Minor. These refugees are chiefly of 
Greek descent, some 10 per cent be- 
ing Armenians, although they have 
lived for some generations in Asia 
Minor. Greece has supplied them 
with homes and a chance to make a 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) 


Dr. Richard Flinn, of North Ave. 


No. 19 


Presbyterian Church, A Trustee 


Grand Opera Program Prominent in Southern 


Announced 


Casts Chosen For Operas of 
Interest to College Community 


With the springtime come plans for 
the opera season from April 20-25. 
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the general 
manager of the Metropolitan Opera 
Company, announces for this year, 
the following program, which prom- 
ises to be one of much interest and 
entertainment. 


The program and cast are as fol- 
lows: 
Monday Evening, April 20 
Amileare Ponchielli’s Opera 
La Gioconda 
(In Italian) 
La Gioconda—Rosa Ponselle. 
Laura Adorno—Jeanne Gordon. 
Alvise Badoero—Jose Mardones. 
La Cieca—Marion Telva. 
Enzo Grimaldo—Giacomo 
Volpi. 
Barnaba—Giuseppe Danise. 
Zuane, a singer—Vincenzo Reschig- 
lian. 
Isepo—Giordano Paltrinieri. 
A Monk—Louis d’Angelo. 
Incidental Dances by Corps de 
Ballet. 

Conductor—Tullio Serafin. 
Tuesday Evening, April 21 
Guiseppe Verdi’s Opera 
Falstaff 
Cin Italian) 

Sir John Falstaff—Antonio Scotti. 

Ford—Lawrence Tibbett. 

Fenton—Armand Tokatyan. 

Dr. Cais—Angelo Bada. 

Ba¥rdolph—Giordano Paltrinieri. 

Pistol—Adamo Didur. 

Mistress Ford—Lucrezia Bori. 

Anne—Frances Alda. 

Dame Quickly—Marion Telva. 

Mistress Page—Kathleen Howard. 

Incidental Dances by Corps de 

Ballet. 

Conductor—Tullio Serafin. 

Wednesday Evening, April 22 
Jacques Halevy’s Opera 


Lauri- 


La Juive 
(The Jewess) 
(in French) 
Rachel—Rosa Ponselle. 
EBleazar—Giovanni Martinelli. 


Cardinal Brogni—Leon Rothier. 
The Princess—Queena Mario. 
Leopold—Ralph Errolle. 
Ruggiero—Millo Picco. 
Albert—Louis d’Angelo. 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


New Plans Made for 
Lower House of 
Student Government 


Body Adopts New 
Regulation 


Student 


As there have been complaints on 
the campus that “the moulding of 
public opinion” is too indefinite a 
task for Lower House to have, Exec 
has formulated a plan for the reor- 
ganization of this body. This plaa 
was presented to the student body 
at chapel several weeks ago, and 
was carried at a second meeting 
called on March 4. 

Lower House will retain the first 
vice-president of Student overn- 
ment as its chairman. There will be 
an advisory board, comprised of the 
editor of the Agonistic, the president 
of the Athletic Association, the fire 
chief, and members of College Coun- 
cil. Besides, four representatives 
from the Proctor Committee of Stu- 
dent Government, there will be two 
representatives from each class, in- 
stead of the unequal representation, 
as formerly. 

Lower House will have five stand- 
ing committees: The Library Com- 
mittee, whose chairman must be a 
Junior; the Open Discussion Commit- 
tee, with a Junior chairman; the Ex- 
tension Committee, which has to do 
(Continued no Page 4, Column 3) 


Presbyterian Church 


Husband of Agnes Scott 
Girl 


Dr. Richard Orme Flinn, besides be- 
ing on the board of trustees of Agnes 
Scott, is one of the most prominent 
men in the Southern Presbyterian 
Church. He is the only son of Rev. 
William Flinn, a Presbyterian minis- 
ter, and a grandson of Dr. Andrew 
Flinn, also a Presbyterian minister. 

Dr. Richard Flinn’s early home 
was in Mobile, Ala., and there he at- 
tended the public schools, then Tole’s 
Academy and Mobile High School in 
succession. He finished his prepara- 
tory school work at Richardson’s Mil- 
itary School in Alabama. 

In his sixteenth year, Dr. Flinn en- 
tered the Southwestern Presbyterian 
University of Clarksville, Tenn. His 
father’s illness made it necessary for 
him to leave school before finishing 
his course, but shortly after he en- 
tered the theological seminary at 
Columbia, S. C. While there, he was 
president of the historic missionary 
society of the seminary, and while at 
the Southwestern University, he was 
a member of the Washington Irving 
Literary Society, a charter member 
and one of the first presidents of the 
Palmer Society, and a member of the 
Theta Chapter of the P. K. A. fra- 
ternity. 

In 1894, at the conclusion of his 
seminary course, Dr. Flinn accepted a 
call to the Kirkwood Church. In 1898 
he left there in response to an urgent 


appeal by’ the Macon Presbytery, to 


undertake the work of establishing 
Presbyterianism in the newly open- 
ed country in the pine belt. He had 
been there only six months, however, 
when he was called to Atlanta to as- 
sist Dr. Barnett in the First Church. 
A movement to organize a new 
church in North Atlanta arose, and 
after having the officials of both 
churches tender him the pastorate, he 
accepted the duties in the new col- 
ony. On January 1, 1899, he began 
his work as pastor of North Avenue 
Presbyterian Church, where he has 
ever since remained. 

During his years in the ministry 
Dr. Flinn has been very active and 
has received many tokens of honor 
and appreciation for his efficient 
service. The honorary degree of 
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May Day Scenario 
Centers About 
Robin Hood 


Breedlove Chosen as May Queen 
and Harrison as Robin Hood 


The Agnes Scott community and 
the throng of outsiders who visit us 
on that occasion are looking forward 
to the May Day celebration this year 
with a great deal of interest. The 
interest on the campus was deepened 
last week when the May Queen, Rob- 
in Hood, and the rest of the cast were 
chosen. Mary Breedlove was elect- 
ed queen by the students, and will 
therefore be “Maid Marion” in the 
play, and Ruth Harrison was elected 
to be Robin Hood and King. The 
maids have not yet been chosen, but 
their names will be announced next 
week, 

There was no May Day scenario 
eontest this year, for last year, aft- 
er “Sherwood Forest,” by Louise 
Buchanan, had been selected, it was 
decided to give a Classical May Day 
program, and the winning scenario 
was reserved for this year. It is a 
departure from the usual, in that its 
subject is not gleaned from ancient 
mythology, and in that there will be 
‘May King” this year. Something 
else different about this year’s pro- 
duction is that there is going to be 
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A CALL TO SERVICE FROM GREECE 


_ Someone familiar with the peculiarities of American college 
students has said that they are selfish and over-busy with tasks 
not performed in the halls of learning, but that they are unusually 
responsive to calls for service and moral uplift. Recently the great- 
est call to service, echoed around the world for several years, has 
been presented to the colleges of America: “The American Friends 
of Greece” plead humanity for the Greek refugees from Smyrna. 
Shall we justify the confidence placed in us by him who called us 
responsive to appeals for service? 

The plight of Greece has been clearly explained to us. A lit- 
tle country, less than half the size of Georgia has been overwhelm- 
ed with millions of refugees, pouring in from Smyrna, which was 
captured by the Turks in 1922. “Greece already well pop- 
ulated. and. none too rich in resources, has welcomed 
these refugees, giving them such homes as she could and as 
much food as possible, but she has not been able to supply work, 
nor to buy products from them. “The American Friends 


of Greece” have tried to help relieve the problem by putting a large 
number of women and children to the task of making scarfs, bags, 
luncheon sets and other such articles. For this handiwork a mar- 
ket must be found in America. And so it has been sent to various 
colleges throughout our country. At Agnes Scott, the Classical 
Club will see the handiwork of the refugees on Friday, March 13, 
in Propylean Hall. We know the situation and we now have an 
opportunity to give our answer to the age-old question, “Am I my 
brother’s keeper?” Thousands of starving men, women and chil- 
dren hold out their bony hands to us for aid, thousands of families 
huddled together in ten-dollar hovels cry silently unto us for 
mercy. In the name of humanity and of Him Who said: “Only a 
cup of cold water,” let us rally to the call. 

Relief of human suffering is not the only result that would 
spring from our aid to the Greek refugees. In giving sympathy, 
we should establish a bond of fellowship between Greece and our- 
selves. Surely America, who stands firm in her policy of political 
isolation, needs, of all nations in the world, to manifest her real de- 
sire for the spirit of world unity, by helping foreign lands in dis- 
tress. 

Humanity and world federation are motives enough to make us 
give gladly where there is need. But the Greek refugees do not 
ask gifts or charity. They simply desire a market for their prod- 
ucts. The articles on display here are things which college girls 
would like to have and their prices are most reasonable. 

College women of America, look at yourselves—well-clothed, 
well-fed and well-sheltered, with an opportunity for seeking higher 
learning! Why? Through no virtue of you college women of 
America; look at the girl refugees in Greece—poorly-clothed, 
scarcely fed and sheltered not at all, without any opportunity for 
education! Why? Through no fault of theirs. Will you not give 
to them of your bounty? 


THE 


MISS ROSA KAUFFMAN SPEAKS 
ON SOCIAL SERVICE AS A 
VOCATION 


The Y. W. C. A. committee on vo- 
presented to the 

Miss 
of the 
of social service, 


cational guidance 
Saturday morning, 
Kauffman, 


students 
Rosa secretary 
state department 
who talked on the field of social serv- 


ice as a vocation. 


Social service, said Miss Kauffman, 
has just recently been developed into 
a science. It is the “art of helping 
people out of trouble,” and persons 
are being helped on a better and 
broader basis. The profession of so- 
cial service must investigate as scien- 
tifically as does law or medicine, It 
seeks to know why, how and when to 
help, how to keep persons from be- 
coming poor, how in short, to “adjust 
people who are not functioning as 
normal citizens.” 


Three fields are open for one desir- 
ing to go into social service work. 
First, there is case work, dealing with 
individuals, as subjects of the juve- 
nile courts. Then there is group work, 
organizing clubs in the Y. W. C. A,, 
among girl scouts, ete. Lastly, there 
is the field of changing communities, 
of trying to make communities see 
the need for play grounds, for child- 
labor laws, etc. 


For one entering the field of social 
service, an A. B, degree is needed, in- 
cluding courses in economics, sociol- 
ogy and psychology. Then one should 
attend a school of social work, as the 
School of Philanthropy in New York, 
or that at Simmons College, or Smith, 
at the University of Pennsylvania, or 
closer home, at the University of 
North Carolina. 

The future of social workers may 
be seen in the positions attained by 
such women as the head of the Fed- 
eral Children’s Bureau in Washing- 
ton; the head of the Consumers’ 
League, and Jane Addams, world-fa- 
mous for her work at Hull House. 
Miss Kauffman recommended two 
books for our reading, “Art of Help- 
ing,” by the N. Y. Charity Organiza- 
tion Society, and “What Is Profes- 
sional Social Work,” by Halbert. 

“Social service,” said Miss Kauff- 
man in conclusion, “is the biggest 
field for service any man or wom- 
an can enter.” 


CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH ENTERTAINS AF- 
FILIATED MEMBERS 


Central Presbyterian Church of At- 
lanta, of which Dr. Lacy is pastor, en- 
tertained the Agnes Scott girls who 
have affiliated there with a most de- 
lightful social, last Thursday 
night in the Alumnae house. Dr. Lacy 
was the life of the party. He an- 
nounced the further plans that the 
church has made for its affiliated 
members, during the spring season. 
The girls, numbering about fifty in 
all, will be divided into groups of 
two or three, and each Sunday one 
or more group will be invited out 
to dine by various Atlanta parish- 
ioners of the church. In all proba- 
bility, too, a swimming party, spon- 
sored by Central Presbyterian, is in 
store for the girls when the weather 
gets a little warmer. 

The parlor and dining room of the 
Alumnae House were beautifully dec- 
orated with spring flowers, and de- 
licious refreshments were served to 
the guests, while standing. A salad 
course was followed by ice cream and 
cake and all accessories. The suc- 
cess of the entertainment is due in 
great measure to Mr. Cole, the chair- 


man of the committee on arrange- 
ments, and to Misses Grace Augusta 


Ogden, Elizabeth Cole and Eloise 
Gaines, the members of the com- 
mittee. 


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AGONISTIC 


PINE LODGE SCENE OF GAY 
FESTIVITIES 


Have you ever been to Pine Lodge 
Camp? We have: Brownie Smith, 
Elizabeth Lynn, Nellie Richardson, 
Mary Shepherd, Marguerite Russell, 
Mabel Robeson, Irma Williams, Dor- 
othy and Ruth Owen, with Miss Gault 
as chaperon, went out the last week- 
end in February, and all, especially 
those for whom it was the first trip, 
bring back enthusiastic reports. 

Every nook and cranny of the camp 
was explored Saturday afternoon. One 
girl even tested the temperature of 
the stream that runs near the camp, 
by falling in, and judging from her 
screams and the race back to camp, 
the water was very cold. 

After these explorations, the camp- 
ers took turns with the little hatchet, 
whose head flies off every three min- 
utes, and soon a huge fire was roar- 
ing up the chimney of the open fire 
place. Selft-appointed cooks prepared 
supper, and the girls fell to with a 
hearty good will. Supper over, 
bridge, jokes and games of all sorts 
were played, and from 11 to 12, just 
to show that candles are not the 
kind of lights that go off at ten 
o’clock, the girls made pecan fudge. 

The last weary camper crawled in- 
to her bunk just as the last candle 
went out, and the last ember of fire 
died. Snores reigned supreme from 
then till 8:30 the next morning. It 
was raining so the girls could not 
climb Stone Mountain, but some who 
were at the camp loaned by Mr. Ven- 
able came over that morning, and the 
sun shone in the afternoon just in 
time to allow us to take some pic- 
tures, so every minute was full to 
the brim. 

A regretful bunch startled the peo- 
ple on the Agnes Scott-bound ear 
with professional of ’ blankets 
and a general ‘roughing it” appear- 
anee. y 

Their advice to all who have not 
been to the camp is “Sign up now for 
Pine Lodge.” 


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AGNES SCOTT HEARS INAUGU- 
RAL ADDRESS OVER RADIO 


Miss Hopkins, five members of the 
faculty, and about forty girls heard 
President Coolidge’s inaugural ad- 
dress on the morning of March 4. 
Oh, no, I don’t mean they took the 
fastest train for Washington. They 
simply sat in the Physics Lecture 
room, and listened in over that mar- 
vel of the modern age, the radio. 
The listeners reported that they were 
able to hear the words of the Presi- 
dent quite distinctly, and, also, music 
from a band, before and after the 
address. Every action of the Pres- 
ident, just after his talk was over, 
was immediately broadcasted, and so 
our girls knew when President Cool- 
idge was kissing the Bible of his 
grandmother just as well as though 
they had been among the crowds 
thronging the capital city itself. 


Intercollegiate 
News 


Georgia Tech is beginning to give 
They 
their team, 
which is to participate in a triangular 


more attention to debating. 


have recently chosen 


debate with Mercer and Alabama. 


Members of the Inter-Fraternity 
Council of the University of Rich- 
mond have planned to award a silver 
cup to the national fraternity on the 
make the 
highest average in class work. Dur- 
ing the spring term a chapel period 
will be given to the presentation of 
the cup to the winning fraternity. 
This seems to be a very good plan 
for promoting interest in scholastic 
work, as well as in causing each man 
to hold up the average of his fra- 
ternity. 


campus whose members 


“The masses will be elevated when 
Henry Ford makes aeroplanes.”—The 


Richmond Collegian. 


The American-German Student Ex- 
change announces that a limited num- 
ber of fellowships for American stu- 
dents in Germany during the academ- 
ic year 1925-1926 will be awarded 
by April 1, 1925. These fellowships 
are established to do their part to- 
ward bringing about international 
friendship. They are open to both 
men and women, are tenable for one 
year, and are offered in the follow- 
ing subjects: Political Science, Eco- 
nomies, Social Economy, Sociology, 
History, Literature, Psychology, Ed- 
ucation, International Law, Commerce 
and Journalism. 

Requirements for eligibility are the 
following: American citizenship, a 
thorough knowledge of German, abil- 
ity to carry on work in a German 
university, which implies at least two 
years in college 
or university; ability to do independ- 
ent study and research, health certi- 
ficate, and a good normal character, 
and adaptability—The Cadet. 


an American 


Other colleges are recognizing the 
value of creative work by students. 
The honorary society of the Univer- 
sity of Virginia, Sigma Epsilon, has 
announced a short story contest for 
local writers. A prize of ten dol- 
lars will be awarded to the writer 
of the best short story. 


CHARLOTTE GIRLS ENTERTAIN 
N. C. CLUB 


The North Carolina Club held its 
regular monthly meeting on March 
6, as guests of the Charlotte girls. 
When the members came into Propy- 
lean Hall, they were greeted by 
peals of music from the piano, which 
Lib Norfleet was skilfully manipu- 
lating. Popular songs featured the 
evening, and later on, the club was 
divided into two groups, each group 
presenting clever charades. Ice cream 
cones and mixed candies were served. 
The hostesses were Misses Maria 
Rose, Mary Keesler, Kathleen Gray, 
Irene Lourance, Josephine Houston 
and Louisa Duls. 


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AGONISTIC 


3 


GIDDIE GOSsiP 


Giddy, I’m What 


would you do if you were restricted 


just a wreck! 


which means you can’t go to town 
for a week? They’re having a sim- 
ply marvelous picture at the How- 
ard or Metropolitan one, I’ve forgot- 
ten which—and I can’t go! Imagine 
‘having to stay from one Tuesday 
to the next without going to town; 
but some girls do just because they 
don’t care about going to town. I 
don’t see why tho. 

One time they’ were talking a heap 
about being restricted from using’ 
books in the library if you didn’t 
do certain things, and the next day 
one of the girls got a regular’ re- 
striction slpi. Oh! I meant to tell you 
she was a freshman and it wasn’t me, 
Anyway, she thought it 
meant from the library, so she didn’t 


either. 


go over there for a week altho’ she 
was taking History I and Biology I. 
When Miss Cole called for the notes, 
she didn’t hand in any and told her 
(Miss Cole) that she wasn’t allowed 
When she 
found out it was the other restric- 
tion you should -have seen her—my 


to come in the library. 


me! but she was squeleched—that’s 
a word I heard one of the faculty 
use the other day. They said, “Well, 
I squelched her.” 


I wish you’d been here Saturday 
night, Giddy. We had the best time 
you’ve ever heard of. You know 
they’re trying to finish raising money 
for the new gym, and so the Athletic 
Board decided they’d have a circus— 
a regular sure ‘nuff old fashioned 
circus—so they had everything that 
was ever at one, and some things 
that haven’t been. s 

There was a flying ginny (7?) or 
merry-go-round, and I spent so much 
money there I got positively sick. It 


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was a two-horse power machine, and 
They had 
stunts inside and side shows. I spent 
in all about $1.50, 
wasn't going to spend half that much. 


certainly drew a crowd. 


when I said I 


But you see the side shows were ir- 
resistible, there was a bearded lady 
and a fat lady (I wonder if she ever 
tried to reduce?) and a bowling al- 
ley in the swimming pool, and you 
didn’t have to go to the other end 
to get your balls, either—they just 
naturally came back to you. 


Oh yes! And the clowns and zoo 
were there—the elephant and bear 
were the funniest extracts from the 
zoo you can imagine. ‘They certain- 
ly were trained well at-.any rate. 

And pink 
candy 


lemonade? Yes—and 
and—and—and—everything. 
It was—on -the whole—just as up- 
to-date and’as good as the South- 
eastern Fair or Bailum and Barnum 
Cireus Bros. 

Well, Giddy, you’re an undeserv- 
ing person and I’m not going to tell 
you another thing this week—’cept 
the Cotillion Club is going to have a 
regular dance for the gym next Wed- 
nesday night, and I'll have to spend 
some more money. 

Your broke, 
AGGIE. 

P. S. I forgot to say that it—the 
circus—made up for not going to 
town. 


CLASSICAL CLUB GIVES GREEK 
BAZAAR 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


living, but she is unable to buy their 
products, because she is essentially 
a poor nation. 


The articles sold by the “American 


{|| Friends of Greece” are made by che 
'| women, and beautifully made, too. 


Those which will interest Agnes 
Seotters most are the silk scarfs em- 
broidered in ancient Greek patterns, 
handmade handkerchiefs, pillow cov- 
ers and charming handbags. 

Princeton made $670 in her bazaar, 
so let us hope Agnes Scott will rally 
to the cause and put Agnes Scoit’s 
part over thoroughly. 


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All ye playurights! ‘Lend me your 
Another five and ten cents store] ears” “The Morning Telegraph” (50th 
was established in Decatur for one] Street and 8th Avenue, New York), is 
day on February 28, when the De-| offering a prize for the best play in 
catur alumnae of Agnes Scott held a} its Prize Play award contest. It 
large rummage sale in that metropo-} should be an inducement to all ama- 
lis. The morning was spent in col-|teurs, because it is for them. The 
lecting the various packages donated| “Morning Telegraph” guarantees pro- 
by the girls, alumnae, and friends, | duction and royalties for the winning 
which included articles of all kinds,| play. 
wearing apparel, cooking 


utensils, In the circular announcement that 


These were ar-| was sent here no details of the con- 
ranged on the counters in true 5 and|test were given, but they are pub- 
10 cents style, with rows of dresses,| lished daily in this newspaper, and 
hats and shoes on display. The doors all who are interested may secure full 


jewelry and pictures. 


opened at 12 o’clock and the delight-| information in one of the issues. 


ed customers eagerly snatched at the 
bargains. 

In the afternoon, 
Agnes Scott 


girls advertised 


several of the| nance. 


“The Morning Telegraph” is Amer- 
ica’s authority on the theatre and fi- 
It might also be added that 


the}it “is showing the way in reviewing 


the ready-to-wear department with a| plays in complete and interesting de- 


fashion show. Adorned in 


lovely | tail, featuring double reviews and in- 


gowns of organdie, voile and silk,| timate gossip for theatre-lovers.” 


wearing beautiful drooping hats, and 


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attracted the attention and admira- 
tion of numerous traders. 


AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH, A TRUSTEE 


The sale is an annual event with| (Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


the Decatur Alumnae and the pro- 


ceeds of it are used for payment on Doctor of Divinity has been conferred 


the Alumnae House. 
sale, under the management of Miss 
Phythian, cleared eighty-five dollars, 
which added quite a bit to the $1,- 
000 annual payment on the House. 
The alumnae are practicularly anx- 
ious to complete this year’s payment, 
as it is the last, and they take this 
opportunity to thank their friends, 
and especially the Agnes Scott girls, 
for their willing cooperation and ap- 
preciated contributions. 


ATHLETIC BOARD BRINGS CIR- 
CUS TO A. 8S. C., SATURDAY, 


MARCH 7. 
(Continued from Page, 1 Column 1) 


Hindu. As a means of diversion for 
minds as well as purses, the roulette 
wheel was unsurpassed. 

But be it all as it may; the point is 
this: The circus put on by the Ath- 
letic Board was a roaring success, and 
the proceeds went toward the new 
gym fund. 


TWO CLUBS ELECT NEW 
MEMBERS 
(Centinued from Page 1, Column 2) 


on Friday, March 13, a day of dread 
for the new members. 
more members, soon to withdraw, can 
wish the next year’s club no more 
fun and profit than they have en- 


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This year the, Upon him. He was elected representa- 


tive of the Pan-Presbyterian Council 
that met at Glasgow, England, in 
1896, and was the moderator of both 
Presbytery and Synod. He is a mem- 
ber of the General Assembly’s Com- 
mittee on Home Missions and chair- 
man of its sub-committee on evange- 
lism; is chairman of the Synodical 
Committee on Evangelism; is a mem- 
ber of the executive committee of the 
Commission on Evangelism of the 
Federal Council of the Churches of 
Christ in America; is a trustee of the 
Thornwell Orphanage at Clinton, S. 
C., and is also a trustee of the Don- 
ald Fraser High School of Decatur, 
Georgia. With Dr. L. G. Broughton, 
of London, England, he was offi- 
cially associated in the directorship 
of the Atlanta Bible Conference on in- 
organization. He 
has been responsible for many new 
church buildings and has devoted 
much time to evangelistic work. 
While traveling extensively in Amer- 
ica and abroad he has taken photo- 
graphs which have been developed in- 
to lantern slides and used in travel 
lectures. 

Dr. Flinn spent six months over- 
seas with the army, two months of 
which time he was with the Army 
of Occupation in Germany, and in 
various sections of the A. E. F. in 
France, the remainder of the time. 


terdenominational 


He will leave the latter part of June 
for Cardiff, Wales, to represent, for 
for the second time, the Synod of 
Georgia at the Pan-Presbyterian 
He holds the office of 
chairmanship in the 
of the 
Churches of America, 


Council. 
Evangelistic 
Council of 
and of the 
Committee of Church 
Co-operation Commission. 

Dr. Flinn early connected himself 
with Agnes Scott by marrying an 
Agnes Scott girl, Miss Anna Emery. 
He is a member of Druid Hills Club, 
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Agnes Scott, and also some of the 
Hottentots themselves, have remark- 
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dining room, due to the fact that nap- 
kins persist in disappearing as fast 
as one brings them to the table. As 
a matter of fact, it is not very pleas- 
ant to be compelled to use handker- 
chiefs or the tablecloth as napkins, 
and we are going to have napkins fur- 
nished by the college, clean, three 
times a week! 

The napkin plan, as voted on by 
the student body on the morning of 
March 4, is as follows: 

Each girl is to donate six napkins 
With these, 
and the ones left by former students 
in Miss Miller’s care at the laundry, 
Miss Davies thinks that the college 
community can be furnished with 
clean napkins three times a week. 
Paper napkins will be provided for 
those whose roommates lie hungry 
abed, or who think they will need 
nourishment before the next meal. 


to the common store. 


If you do not now possess six 
napkins, you can buy them at 75c¢ 
for six. Have them réady. 

GRAND OPERA PROGRAM 

ANNOUNCED 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


A Herald—Paolo Ananian. 
Major Domo—Vincenzo Rischiglian. 


Incidental Dances by Corps de 


Ballet. 

Conductor—Louis Hasselmans. 
Thursday Afternoon, April 23 
Richard Wagner’s Opera 
Lohengrin 
(in German) 

King Henry—Michael Bohnen. 

Lohengrin—Curt Taucher. 

Elsa of Brabant—Elizabeth Reth- 
berg. 

Telramund—Clarence Whitehill. 

Ortrud—Julia Claussen. 

The King’s Herald—Lawrence Tib- 
bett. 

Conductor—Giuseppe [Bamboschek. 
Friday Evening, April 24 
Aviego Boito’s Opera 
Mefistofle 
Cin Italian) 

Margherita—Frances Alda. 
Elena—Frances Peralta. 
Pantalis—Marion Telva. 
Marta—Kathleen Howard. 
Mefistofele—Feodor Chaliapin. 
Faust—Giacomo Lauri Volpi. 
Wagner—Angelo Bada. 
Nereo—Giordana Paltrinieri. 
Incidental Dances by Corps de 
Ballet. 

Conductor—Tullio Serafin. 
Saturday Afternoon, April 25 
Jacques Offenbach’s Fantastic Opera 
The Tales of Hoffmann 
(In French) 

Olympia—Louise Hunter. 
Giuletta—Lucrezia Bori. 
Antonia 
Nicklansse—Kathleen Howard. 
A Voice—Henrietta Wakefield. 
Hoffman—Edward Johnson, 
Copplius 
Dappertutto—Giuseppe de Luca. 
Miracle 
Spalanzani—George Meader. 
Schlemil—Lawrence Tibbett. 
Lindorf 
Crespel—Louis d’Angelo. 
Andres 
Cochenille ; 
Franz—Angelo Bada. 
Pitichinaccio 
Nathanael—Max Altglass. 
Hermann—William Gustafson. 
Luther—Millo Picco. 
Conductor—Louis Hasselmans. 
Saturday Evening 
Giacomo Puccini’s Opera 
Tosca 
p (in Italian) 
Floria Rosca—Florence Easton. 
Mario Cavaradossi—Giovanni Mar- 
tinelli. 
Baron Scarpia—Antonio Scotti. 
‘Cesare Angelotti—Louis d’Angelo. 
The Sacristan—Paolo Ananian. 
Spoletta—Angelo Bada. 
Sciarrone—Vicenzo Reschiglian. 
A Jailer—Arnold Gabor. 
A Shepherd—Henriette Wakefield. 
‘ Cnnductor—Gennaro Papi. 


THE 


AGONISTI 


C 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Yowll Do. 
Judge—‘You are a freeholder?” 
Juryman—“Yes, sir, I am.” 
“Married or single?” 

“Married three years last June.” 

“Have you formed or expressed an 
opinion?” 

“Not for three years, your honor.” 


For Better or For Worse. 
He: “Dearie, I must marry you.” 
She: “Have you seen father?” 
He: “Sure, but I love you just the 
same.” 


Rare Bargain. 


“That bracelet, madame, is unique. 
It was given to the Empress Josephine 
by Napoleon Bonaparte. We are sell- 
ing a great number of them this 
year.” 


Another Gouff. 


“He: “The tunnel we just passed 
through cost a million dollars.” 

Fair One: “It was absolute waste of 
money, as far as you are concerned.” 


Better Than She Looks. 


The girl who’s not good looking but 
can dance like a million is like an 
Elgin movement in an Ingersoll case. 


Viewpoints. 


Dear Parents: 
I’ve been suffering from eye-strain 
lately. 


Son, 
Dear Son, 
Please, don’t study so hard. 
Mother. 
Dear Son, 


Keep away from the front rows of 
musical comedies. 
Father. 


Tipping the Lid. 

She: “You raised your hat to that 
girl who passed. You don’t know 
her, do you?” 

He: “No, but my brother does and 
this is his hat.” 


A Better Way. 
Father: “The next time that young 
fool comes around here I'll sit on him.” 
Daughter: “Oh, papa, leave that to 
me.” 


Maud: “What happened when your 
father told your fiance he ought to 
put something aside for a rainy day?” 

Lois: “A little later Dad missed his 
raincoat.” 


Crip: “The picture of the horse is 
good, but where’s the wagon?” 
Gip: “Oh, the horse will draw that.” 


Lady Fair 
Don’t despair 
In your quest 


—for Style. 


Here, ever new, 
Just for you, 
Are the modes 


—worth while. 


Attractive Hats 


Furs and Hosiery 


C. & C. Rosenbaum 


Eleven West Alabama 


ATLANTA 


Family Order. 


“Hello! I want to order a box for 
tomorrow ?” 

“What size?” 

“There. will be six of us in the 
partys” 

“But they come in single sizes— 
we'll have to have it made special.” 

“Ts this the Lyceum?” 

“No, this is the undertaker.” 


Fifty: “Is the pleasure of the next 
dance to be mine?” 
Twenty: ‘Yes, all of it.” 


Mother (anxiously) —“What is 
Willie crying for?” 
Willie’s Brother—‘Oh, nothing 


much. He dug a hole in the garden, 
and, now that the rain’s come on, he 
wants to bring the hole -into the 
house.” 


For hours they had been together 
on her front porch. 

The moon cast its tender beam down 
on the young couple who sat strangely 
far apart. He sighed. She sighed. 
finally. 

“T wish I had money, dear,” he said. 
“T'd travel.” 

Impulsively, she slipped her hand 
into his; then she sped into the house. 

Aghast, he looked at his hand. In 
his palm lay seven cents. 

MAY DAY SCENARIO CENTERS 
ABOUT ROBIN HOOD 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


a charge in order to help swell the 
“Auditorium-Swimming Pool” cam- 
paign fund. This charge will be 25c 
for adults and 10c¢ for children, and 
those who have been present at for- 
mer fetes here can testify that it 
certainly is worth the price. 

The scenario with the May Day 
cast follows: 

Sherwood Forest 
“Ballads of old tell us how the beau- 
tiful maid Marion was won by the 
bold Robin Hood; and that they lived 
happily ever afterwards.” One of the 
happy incidents of their later life 
was a May Day celebration in Sher- 
wood Forest given in their honor. On 
this occasion, Little John, one of Rob- 
in Hood’s most faithful yeomen, was 
at last successful in his suit for 
Kate’s hand. His happiness was com- 
plete when Robin Hood approved his 
happiness as a boon. 

Order of Events 
Episode I. 

Village maidens, (Kat Kalmon, 
Clarkie Davis, R. Janes, E. Satter- 
white, M. M. Hough, E. McConlay, 
L. Woodard, S. Shields, M. Childress, 
R. Barnett, M. B. Smith, L. L, Tur- 
ner, Olivia Swann, Rosalie Wooten) 
go out before sunrise to bathe their 
faces in the dew of the pale pink 
Hawthorn, to make their complexions 
lovely. 

The Goddess of the Sun, (Sarah 


WELCOME 


Hewey’s Drug Store 


Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


For prompt service 


Agnes Scott girls are always 
welcome— 


Wiggle thru and help yourself. 
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT |} 


G. B. Spearman, Mgr. 


NEW PLANS MADE FOR LOWER 
HOUSE OF STUDENT 
GOVERNMENT 


‘(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


with the extension of Student Gov- 
ernment into high schools, with a 
Senior, as chairman; the point com- 
mittee whose chairman will come 
from the Senior class, and the Proc- 
tor Committee, having as chairman a 


Senior member of Exec. 


Slaughter) with her numerous Sun 
Spirits, (K. Pittman, C. Hinman, M. 


-Bledsoe, V. Sevier, Anne Hays, Eloise 


Gaines, L. Bolles, V. Kamper, M. 
Cunningham, J. Lamonte, Elizabeth 
Cole, V. McDonald), appear from the 
east and proclaim the dawn of day. 

The May Queen, (M. Breedlove), 
and King, (R. Harrison). 

A Country Dance. Country Dan- 
cers, (H. Farmer, L. Geeslin, G. Me- 
Kinnon, S. Abernathy, E. Bennett, L. 
Harrison, E. Greer, L. Greer, S. Tate, 
M. A. Gill, E. Roark, Ruth Thomas, 
E. Colyer, C. Buckland, L. Lowe, M. 
Sayward.) One Villager, (Eunice 
Kell) in the costume of the Hobby 
Horse, kicks and canters, much to the 
amusement of the common people. 
Interlude, 

Wood Nymphs, (L. Clement, L. 
Porcher, M. Shaw), reveal the beau- 
ties of the forest. 

Episode II. 

The Yeomen, (R. McDonald, M. R. 
Dobbins, D. Harper, S. Glenn, E. Ruff, 
M. Perkinson, Jo Houston, H. Hill- 
house, R. Livermore, E. Malone, E. 
Kingsbury, G. Zachary, B. Fuller, Ted 
Wallace, E. Nelson), demonstrate 
their skill in archery. 

The Milk Maids, (H. Daher, E. 
Redding, M. Jennings, C. McLaurine, 
D. Ferrell, L. Sherfesee, N. Crowther, 
E. Dunn, N. Woolfla, A. M. McCol- 
lum, Blanche Berry), dance merrily 
about a cow, 

The Morris Dance. Morris Dancers, 
(V. Hollingsworth, M. Crenshaw, E. 
Moore, E. Jacobson, M. Riviere, L. 
White, M. Heath, H. Fox, V. Wing, 
M. Johnson, K. Dunean, L, Bansley, 
E. Stead, Louise Smith). 

Interlude. 

Vari-colored Butterflies, (Eloise 
Harris, M. Morrow, Emily Cope, V. 
Peeler, E, Erlich, H. Kalmon), flutter 
about. 

Episode III. 

A Sword Dance. Sword Dancers, 
(M. Ferguson, R. Harrison, H. 
Speights, M. Cowan, C. McKinnon, M. 
Crenshaw, Anais Jones, Edith Brown, 
L. Bowers, M. Preston, E. Rickards, 
M. Wakefield, N. L. Knight, J. Na- 
pier). 

A May Pole Dance. The green top- 
bough of the May Pole falls to Lit- 
tle John. This automatically pro- 
claims him the hero of the day. He 
is lauded with shouts and music, and 
gives the much cherished top-bough 
to his partner, Kate. She accepts his 
prize, and the happy couple, followed 
by the cheering crowd, go before the 
May throne to receive the approval 
and blessing of Robin Hood and his 
fair Queen. 

(Exeunt with Grand March) 

Spirits of the Forest, (A. Edwards, 
M. Crow, R. Owen, M. Gholston, E. 
Perkins, M. Freeman, K. Johnson, E. 
Norfleet, Susie Clayton, Evelyn All- 
bright, M. Burnley, A. Weichselbaum, 
Annie Johnson. 

Setting Sun. 


Joxunson-Da is Co. 


Printers 


Atlanta, Georgia 


Student Life In 


Denmark 


By Ingeborg Liisberg 


(Fellow of the American-Scandi- 
navian Foundation) 


Continued From Previous Issue 


The buildings and the customs of 
Regensen are both ancient. Christian 
IV, who is known in Denmark as the 
builder-king, erected this brick court 
as a residence for students in 1628 
and built beside it the Round Tower, 
one hundred and fifteen feet high, 
as an observatory for the famous 
Tycho Brahe. From 
Regensen the students of 41659 
marched to the defense of the city, 
first bartering with the King to elect 
their own officers, who, they stipu- 
lated, were not allowed “to treat them 
to cuts, blows and abuse.” It was a 
procession in the Rembrandt manner, 
of cavaliers with plumed hats and 
spurs, and swords to be used now 
against the enemies of the country 
and again in brawls with the young 
aristocrats of the town. 

But in the eighteenth century, dis- 
putation took the place of the duel, 
and students fought in mad Latin 
syllogisms to determine such facts as 
whether the world was round or flat 
and what sort of tree was the Tree 
of Knowledge. Ludvig Holberg, the 
father of Danish drama and professor 
at the University from 1717 to 1754, 
has caught the spirit of these disputa- 
tions in his excellent comedy, “Eras- 
mus Montanus,” whose hero preferred 
this high-sounding title to his own 
soil-stained name of Rasmus Berg. In 
Regensen, much of Denmark’s drama 
and verse has been composed, espe- 
cially in the nineteenth century when 
the students were roused to new pa- 
triotic fervor by the songs of their 
poet leaders. 

The life of the students in Regen- 
sen escapes the public eye. The great 
traditional festivals are attended by 
only residents of Regensen and they 
are never reported in the press. One 
of the greatest of these annual festi- 
vals is nothing other than the celebra- 
tion of the birthday of a linden tree 
planted in the center of the court in 
1785. Her birthday—Mme. Linden is 
the only lady in residence at Regensen 
—is celebrated each year on the 
twelfth of May. Clad in her new 
dress of light green and with a pair 
of white gloves on her branching 
fingers, she receives the congratula- 
tory handshakes of the students and 
good wishes for the new year. 
Through the brilliant northern night, 
which at that time of year never 
comes to complete darkness, song's 
and speeches rise in her honor while 
the Round Tower like a venerable 
grey giant looks down over the tile 
roof and brick walls upon the noisy 
throng. 

The man in command at Regensen 
is the Provost, who is selected from 
among the professors of the Univer- 


astronomer, 


sity. His post has not always been 
a sinecure; the Provost of 1632 had 
his hair pulled by a student, and his 
successor in 1650 said that he would 
not wish his worst enemy to have 
But the students are not. 

with 
They have even an Alarm Clock Club, 


his place. 


unfamiliar self-government. 


the members of which consider it 
their bounden duty to waken all their 
fellows by noise, water, fire, and oth- 
er early morning torture. 

Among newer dormitories are the 
beautiful Hagemann’s Collegium with 
accommodations for fifty students at 
an individual cost of only sixteen dol- 
Another dormitory 
which has just been completed will 
house one hundred students. The 
student life at the University of Co- 
penhagen centers on these dormitory 
organizations, but there 
societies where the students meet on 
common ground. 


lars a month. 


are many 


There is a Students’ Council chos- 
en each year by the students to stand 
as their official representatives be- 
fore the University and the public. 
The Council is divided into commit- 
tees corresponding to the five facul- 
ties and has such academic duties as 
toe purchase foreign scientific jour- 
nals and doctors’ theses for distribu- 
tion among the students of the Uni- 
versity. The Council has arranged 
international conferences on philol- 
ogy, medicine, and other subjects of 
research; it has raised funds for suf- 
fering students in Central Europe 
and Russia and for the restoration of 
libraries in devastated France and 
Czecho Slovakia. 


The chief clubs are the Studenter- 
frening (Student Union), whose poli- 
tics are Liberal-Conservative, and the 
Studentersamfund (Student Associa- 
tion), which is inclined to be radical. 
The first of these was established in 
1820, the second 62 years later. In 
these clubs there are libraries and 
reading-rooms, and halls for Saturday 
night lectures or dances. A group of 
American students visiting Copen- 
hagen during the summer of 1922 
were given a reception in the majes- 
tic halls of the Student Union, a 
building which reminded them of the 
university clubs to be found in Amer- 
ican cities. Three long tables were 
placed in one of the great halls and 
on these were only the flags of Den- 
mark and America and huge bowls 
of punch. It is the custom for any- 
one who wishes to make a speech to 
rise and tap his glass with his knife. 
On this occasion a Danish student 
felt moved to speak of the Norse 
discovery of America by Leif Erics- 
son in the year 1000, and an Ameri- 
can replied by telling of the sec- 
ond discovery of America by a 
Scandinavian, Andrew Volstead, who 
did away with America’s old Norse 
name of Vineland or Wine-land, But 
the Student Union plays a practical 
as well as an ornamental part in stu- 
dent life. There is, for instance, a 
committee which places students on 
the farms at harvest time to help 
with the harvesting and to live as 
members of the farmer’s family. 


Rialto 


Week 
March 


Oth 


STHE .SWARS 


A PARAMOUNT PICTURE 
With Adolph Menjou, Ricardo Cortez and Frances Howard 


“The Yellow 


Jacket Four” 


Of The Tech Glee Club 


Al Holden, Ike Williams, Skinny Edge and Webb Brown 
IN 


Prologue—Harmony and Syncopated Songs. 
The Telephone Girl 


By H. C. 


WITWER 


PATHE NEWS 


Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1925 


No. 20 


Made For 
Session 1925-1926 


Browning and Fain Lead| yr. William A. 
ey Bellingrath a Trustee 


Nominations 


> 


— 


Elections of officers for 1925-1926 
will be held Thursday, March 19, at 
4:30 o’clock. Every student is urged 
to be present and take part in order 
that the elections may reflect the 
opinion of the student body. Below 
are the nominations. Think them over 
before Thursday. 


Ccommittee Nominations 
Student Government 


Mr. William A. Bellingrath is one 
of the most interesting members of 
our board of trustees. He is of Ger- 
man descent, and comes from a line 
of distinguished ancestry. His grand- 
father, Leonard Bellingrath, in 1849, 
wrote an article against militarism, 
which evil was greatly responsible for 
the World War. He was indicted for 
sedition and had to leave Germany 
between suns. He came to North 
Carolina and settled there. 


President—Browning, Virginia. 
First Vice-President—Fain, Ellen. 
Second Vice-President—Hermance, 


Hel Mr. W. A. Bellingrath’s father 
‘ea Se OER Sprinkle married Miss Catherine Jean McMel- 
Evelyn are _ lin, and moved from Fayetteville, 
Secretary—Bledsoe, Maurine. North Carolina to Atlanta, before the 
Treasurer—Leyburn, Ellen Doug-} Civil War. During this war, he and 
las. ; Mr. Bellingrath’s uncle manufactured 
J co College Council—North, | aieohol and spirits of nitre for the 
Josephine, 
Student Treasurer—Wallace, Lady Confederate government. They were 
Sue. Rr Vere both members of the Medical Depart- 


ment of the Confederate Government, 
and surrendered at Cuthbert, Geor- 
gia, after Lee’s surrender at Appo- 
mattox. 

In 1868 Mr, William Bellingrath 
was born in Atlanta. Later his par- 
moved to Alabama, where at a 


Chairman Auditing Committee— 
Callen, Elizabeth. 


YY; W. Goh. 


President—Peeler, Virginia. 
Vice-President — Tufts, Margaret. 
Secretary—Green, Marcia. 


Treasurer—Sevier,, Virginia. ents 


Undergraduate Representative— very early age he entered the Wasi- 
Jacobsen, Elsa. ness world, and where he has heen 
Silhouette very successful. His home is now in 


Montgomery, where he is a leader 
in civic and religious sampaigns. He 
is probably the most influential man 
in that city in heading campaigns and 
For the last eight 
years, he has served as an elder in 


| Editor-in-chief — Graeber, Cath- 


-erine, 


ant Editor — uehuedlive, 


Rachel. 
Business Manager—Mitchell, Cath- 
erine. 


new movements. 


Assistant Business Manager— : f 

Gaines, Eloise. the First Presbyterian es He is 

: a member of the Board of Directors 
Aurora 


of the First National Bank, and of 
the First Joint Stock Land Bank of 
Montgomery. 
of the Montgomery Provision Com- 


Editor—Ogden, = Grace Augusta. 
Assistant Editor=Winter. Roberta. 


Business ManigdShields, Sara. 


Assistant Business |Manager—Wat- 
_son, Georgia, 


He is also president 


pany, chairman of the farm section 
of the Chamber of Commerce, and 


iV ORE is on the board of trustees of the 
_ Editor—Duls, Louisa. Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Association. 

Assistant Editor — Buchanan,| 4), Bellingrath is one of the four 
Frances. 


representatives of the Synod of Ala- 
bama on the Agnes Scott Board. He 
serves on the finance committee. He 
is one of several trustees who gave 
a voluntary contribution to the Swim- 
ming Pool Fund for our new gymna- 
sium building. 


Business Manager—Harris, Eloise. 
Assistant Business Manager— 
Craighead, Frances. 


Athletic Association 


President—Slaughter, Sara. 

Vice President—Johnson, Stirling. 
Secretary—Cunningham, Mary. 
Treasurer—Albright, Eleanore. —\ 
Song Leader—Po Evelyn. , 
*Orchestra Bisons Mary 
Ray. 

Fire Chief—Rebele, Margaret. 


¥ 


aS —"“————> 
gnes Scott Girls 
Attend Heifetz 
Concert 


Popular Nominations 
Student Government 


President—Fain, Hermance, Brown- In an advertisement of Agnes Scott 
= ; ; 


ing. ; 
First  Vice-President—Fain.; 
Graeber, Hermance, Browning. 
Second Vice-President—Fain, Her- 
mance, Browning. 
Third Vice-President — Browning, 
Carpenter, Sprinkle. 
Secretary—Leyburn, 


which appeared recently, was men- 
te, tion the advantage of attending a col- 
lege near a city where musical con- 
certs of great merit may be enjoyed. 
The writer must have been thinking 


Jacobsen, M.| of the treat in store when Jascha 


Davis. Dav + ichaen Heifetz, one of the world’s greatest 
_—M. avis eybu 
Scan. - : ; violinists, gave his concert Tuesday 


evening. Heifetz, who is not yet 
twenty-five years of age, has been 
making public appearances and suc- 
cessful ones since he was five. The 
expectations of Atlanta music lovers, 
though high, were not at all disap- 
pointed by this young Russian, 


Member College Council—Lingle, 
North, Harris. ; 

Student Treasurer—Swann, tie, 
L. S. Wallace, E. Jones; tie, E. Cal- 
len, S. Johnson. ; 

Chairman Auditing Committee— 
Callen, Hammond, Pitman. 


ce es The following well selected and 

President—Peeler, Tufts, M. D. ¥atied. program was interpreted with 

Soe Reeaident Tutte; Peeler, M.| masterly skill and depth of under- 
D. Brown. standing. 


(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) (Continued on Page 4, Column 4) 


Juniors Present 
Fashion Show 
Saturday Night 


Fashion Queen and Maids Make 
Lovely Models 


The fashion show presented by the 
junior class on Saturday evening, 
March 14, with clothes kindly lent 
by Mr. Frohsin, of Atlanta, was a 
delightful success. Now while we 
are making plans for spring holidays, 
we are thinking of pretty clothes to 
make the home town sit up and take 
notice when we return. Nowhere, 
then, could our money have been more 
profitably spent in seeing the styles 
than in viewing these lovely clothes 
from Frohsin’s worn by stylish misses 
of Agnes Scott. 

The scene was laid at a gay coun- 
try club, and the program was di- 
vided into four parts, morning, after- 
noon, evening, and the appearance of 
the fashion queen. Frisky Gooper, 
strikingly gowned in a dark dress 
with a red and black Spanish shawl, 
acted as “barker” and read before 
each part clever little verses writ- 
ten by Nan Lingle. 

The following was the introduction 
to the morning scene at the country 
club: 

Some folks say, I’ve heard them say 
it, 

Clothes can make you pretty, yes, 
But we contend this sort of beauty 

Is just skin-deep at its best. 


Now gentlemen, and all you ladies, 
Do not heed this foolish brawl, 
After all the simple truth is 
Save the surface, you save all. 


Mr. Frohsin from Atlanta 
Knows this argument is true. 

| More than that—tonight he’s lent us 
Means of proving it to you. 


Follow me, my friends, a little 
To a country club house gay. 
Watch the costumes on this terrace 
For the space of one short day. 


Day there starts as soon as sunrise 
So we must be there by dawn 

Would we see the wealth of bounties 
Fashjgn gives this year to morn. 


| Walking, swimming, golf and tennis 
Make the morning seem too short 
Sport and laughter, fun and frolic, 
With this type of dress is bought. 
Then one by one the following five 
girls appeared showing the latest 
thing in sport wear for tennis and 
golf: Peggy Rankin, Eloise Harris, 
Louise Sydnor, Ellen Walker, Cath- 
erine Mitchell. 
Frisky, after this, reappeared and 
read: 
Afternoon you say is dreary? 


(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Sophie - Newcomb 
Debaters To Arrive 
Friday 


After the excitement of seeing our 
own debaters off on Wednesday, and 
hailing Sophie Newcomb’s representa- 
tives on Friday, Agnes Scott will be 
all prepared for the great final event 
Friday night. 

Sophie Newcomb is sending as her 
team, Charlotte Voss and Ethel Bauer, 
with Ruby Foster as alternate. The 
debaters will arrive some time Fri- 
‘day morning, the exact train which 
they will take not being known when 
this paper went to press. 

As usual, a luncheon will be given 
for the home and visiting teams in 
Rebekah dining room on the day of 
their arrival. Representatives from 
various Agnes Scott organizations will 
be present. Speeches will be an inter- 
esting feature of the luncheon pro- 
gram, 

Friday, and the arrival of New- 
comb’s debaters is indeed greatly an- 
ticipated by the entire college. 


a 


y 


a 


Students Reach $1650 Mark 
Tuesday Afternoon 


Miss Rowe Presents 
Gift To Armistead 
Memorial Fund 


There are some people whose in- 
fluence is so great, because of their 
broad sympathies and their love of 
their fellow kind, that they make an 
indelible impression on the lives of 
all whom they touch, no matter how 
slightly. Such a man was Dr. J. D. 
M. Armistead, for many years the 
head of the English department of 
Agnes Scott. In memory of this be- 
loved teacher, various Alumnae and 
members of the faculty have started 
a fund for the care and maintenance 
of the Armistead Memorial Rome in 
the library, which they hope to main- 
tain as a lasting monument to his 
work and influence. 

Just recently this fund was added 
to by a gift of one hundred dollars by 
Miss Margaret Rowe. Miss Rowe 
graduated with the class of 1919. Dur- 
ing her college years she was great- 
ly interested in English work. She 


was a member of B. O. Z. and worked 
on the Agonistic. Recently she won 
the drama prize of two hundred and 
fifty dollars offered by Miss Mary 
Kirkpatrick, Alumna. Remember- 
ing her years 
constant inspiration which Dr. Armi- 
stead was to her, and all the other 
students, she immediately sent one 


hundred» dollar's! of .the nrize to the! 


Memorial Fund. This money will 
be used to buy duplicate copies or 
new books, which will be placed in 
the English room. It is the hope of 
those interested in the plan that the 
books which are placed in this room 
will be to each successive class in 
some measure the inspiration which 


Dr. Armistead was to every girl in his | 


classes. 


HAND IN YOUR SECOND 
SEMESTER SCHEDULE 


All students who have not yet done 
so are urgently requested to hand in 
their second semester schedule to 
Miss Hopkins. 


ranged, and if Miss Hopkins does not 
receive the missing schedules at once, 
she will be compelled to arrange the 
examinations with reference to the in- 
formation on hand only. This will 
undoubtedly lead to conflicts and 
cause much inconvenience. 


System of Proctoring 
Changed 


At Student Government meeting 
on last Tuesday night, Mary Ann Me- 
Kinney announced that the Proctor 
system had been changed, after the 
motion had been agreed upon by Col- 
lege Council and the student body. 
There is now to be a Proctor Board 
composed of twenty proctors and a 
chairman, who is to be a senior mem- 
ber of the Executive Board. 


The board will meet once a week 
to discuss matters in the interest of 
the dormitory, and a representative 
will meet with Lower House. The 
chairman will report at each regular 
meeting of the Executive Board. 

The proctors will be chosen accord- 
ing to their ability, and will hold the 
position for two months. This posi- 
tion will not be a thankless one, as 
each proctor is to be given six points, 
and will be held responsible for the 
order on her hall. 

This new system will go into effect 
on Tuesday, March 17, and is expected 
to be effective in securing better or- 
der and reducing the number of 
knocks, 


b Agnes Scott and the! 


It is necessary that | 
the final examination schedule be ar-| 


Wednesday a Holiday 


The unexpected always brings an 
immense thrill and quite often a de- 
lightful surprise. The holiday last 
Wednesday came to the Hottentots 
with almost as little warning as a 
spring shower in April, and was as 
welcome as a cool and pleasant oasis 
to a weary caravan traveling over the 
burning wastes of the Sahara. Vari- 
ety is, indeed, the spice of life! 

Whisperings and vague rumors cir- 
culated about the campus, and, by 
supper time on Monday, March 9th, 
some daring souls were suggesting 
that a holiday was on the way. The 
majority, however, knowing that 
classes as Agnes Scott, like the laws 
of the Medes and Persians, alter not, 
remained skeptical. During the meal, 
a notice was read to the effect that 
an important announcement would be 
made in the chapel after prayers. 
Needless to say, the chapel was crowd- 
ed, and the air was simply tense with 
excitement. After prayers, Miss Ran- 
dolph announced that the campaign 
to raise the fund for the swimming- 
pool and stage for the new gymnasium 
building was coming along nicely and 
all were sure of success, but that it 
would be a good thing to wind up the 
campaign as soon as possible. In or- 
der to do this, the faculty had decided 
to give a holiday as soon as the full 
amount should be pledged. Myr. Her- 
mance had promised to pay the last 
$500, anid the sum to be raised was, 
therefore, only $1,650. If the total 
amount were pledged by Tuesday 
night, Wednesday would be a holiday. 
The vociferous clapping and cheering 
which ensued gave strong evidence 
|that there would be no classes on 
Wednesday. 

Committees from Hoasc, Black- 
friars, and the Athletic Association 
started to work immediately and 
|made an intensive and extensive sur- 
vey of the campus in an effort to see 
‘all students who had not made pledges, 
Excitement was rampant, and specu- 
lation as to the probability of a 
holiday was the only topic of con- 
versation. The commotion was in- 
ereased by a fire drill shortly after 
|lights, when it was announced that 
only $700 was lacking to complete the 
fund. 

The good work went on all Tuesday 
morning, and the fund increased by 
leaps and bounds. The burning ques- 
tion of the day was “To study or not 
to study”; some, in fact, the majority, 
glad of a reason to forget books, 
cast worry to the winds and planned 
how they would spend the next day; 
| but more cautious individuals, believ- 
|ing in preparedness, kept their heads 
and pegged away at the usual routine 
—that is, as far as the all-pervading 
agitation would permit. At dinner, the 
excitement became an uproar, when 
the fact was announced that the whole 
amount had been pledged, and the 
next day would be a holiday. 

A time of rejoicing followed, and 
all joined in the song of triumphant 
gladness. A whole spring day without 
a single class! Would wonders never 
cease! A holiday in such gay weather 
was intrinsically a thing of joy, but 
this holiday meant much more, for 
it was a symbol of victory, a pledge 
that the new gymnasium would be 
equipped in the proper manner and 
that the swimming pool and stage 
would take an important place in 
its construction. 


VIRGINIA CLUB MEETS 

The regular monthly meeting of the 
Virginia club was held Monday eve- 
ning, March 9. The members met in 
Mr. Dieckman’s studio at 9 o’clock 
and, after a short business meeting 
spent the rest of th ehour as a social. 
Much news of paramount interest was 
discussed and every one enjoyed the 
evening to the fullest extent. Deli- 
cious ice cream and cakes were served 
by the hostesses, Misses Frances Mc- 
Colyan and Margaret Hyatt. 


THE 


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Che Agonistic 


(Published Weekly Except During the Holidays and Examination Periods) 


Subseription Price, $1.75 per year in advance. 
Single Copies, 5 cents. 


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Entered as Second Class Matter. 


STAFF OF AGONISTIC. 


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INFLUENCE 


In the physics laboratory we become acquainted with an in- 
fluence machine. This is a contrivance for producing electricity, 
and it has the ability to cause an electric charge on any conductor 
brought near it. Men and women are, in a sense, influence ma- 
chines, mechanisms for developing character, and they have the 
ability to impart the expression of character, their ideals, to all 
the people with whom they come in contact. A college campus is 
to a high degree a place of contacts; in fact, some students avow- 
edly go to college for the sake of the friendships which they hope 
to make there. Fortunately, college students as a class realize 
the grave responsibility of influence which is involved in living in 
such a community. But how do they go about exerting it? 


Dr. Stalker, in his “Imago Christi’, discusses very completely 
two dangers which confront those who have taken seriously the 
problem of necessary influence. In the first place, important as 
influence is, we cannot afford to give it too prominent a place in 
deciding upon our actions, for then conduct would appear so re- 
sponsible that we should hesitate to do anything, and energy would 
be greatly curtailed. If in considering whether or not we should 
take a church cut, attend a lecture, or go to a dance, we should 
carefully determine the effects that our attendance or non-attend- 
ance would have upon our friends, certainly we should all soon be 
mental urchins and fit to attend nothing. But this danger is not 
a real one to college students for the thoughts of youth are entirely 
too ego-centrie to be seriously cumbered by a sense of responsibil- 
ity to others. Dr. Stalker’s second warning is, perhaps, liver. 
Seeking to exert a good influence might betray us into living so 
much for effect as to fall into hypocrisy. Seniors, feeling their 
importance in the eyes of Freshmen, might pretend a belief in hard 
studying and rarely open a book themselves; or express horror at 
the violation of any of our student government rules, and yet not 
seruple to go back to their own dormitories and talk in the halls. 
Then, there is another side to this danger, hypocrisy resulting 
from the effort to make a favorable impression in the eyes of 
somebody. We may profess enmity to the habit of studying on 
Sunday, in the company of a revered friend, and proceed to in- 
dulge that habit when she is gone. Or we may pretend to be 
delighted with a poem which really bores us intolerably. Perhaps, 
too, students now and then pretend, for the sake of the faculty, 
a consuming interest in a subject which has no interest for them. 
a or not the faculty are deceived, only they themselves 

ow. 


The solution to the problem of exerting influence is simple. Our 
influence is the direct equivalent of our worth. Every step in in- 
dividual progress is also an increase in influence. We need not 
inform people of what we stand for, our acquaintances take knowl- 
edge of us, anyway, whether we are good, bad or indifferent, and 
are influenced accordingly. When we try to make an impression, 
just then is when we fail to impress: “The road to influence is 
simply the highway of duty and loyalty.” : 


GREEK BAZAAR A SUCCESS 

The Greek Bazaar sponsored by the 
Classical Club last Friday afternoon 
and evening, was a quite pronounced 
financial success. Of the many ar- 
ticles on display, luncheon sets, run- 


A FOOL THERE WAS 


A fool there was and he stayed up 
late, 
Even as you and I, 
And all he did was proserastinate, 


ners, baby clothes, scarfs, laces, etc., 
the lovely hand-made handkerchiefs, 
selling for $1 each, were perhaps the 
most popular. Large sales were 
made too, of Turkish candies, fur- 
nished by the Woman’s Auxiliary of 
the Greek Church in Atlanta, and of 
Agnes Scott’s favorite drink, coffee, 
topped with an inch of whipped cream. 
Up through Friday night, it was an- 
nounced that one hundred and ninety- 
five dollars had been made for the 
Greek refugees. 


Even as you and I; 

He left his work to meet its fate, 
Until Exams made him hesitate, 

The highest he got was 68, 
Even as you and I, 

A fool there was and he studied late, 
Maybe as you, not I, 

He’d never loaf or dissipate; 

His Prof. he tried to imitate, 
Alibis he’d relate, 

The lowest he got was 98. 
-It may have been you, not I. 

—The Wildcat. 


FRATERNITY WORLD IS _ IN- 
VADED BY KU KLUX 


Many are mystified, some are in- 
dignant, at Albany, New York, over 
the report that the Exalted Order of 
the Ku Klux Klan has been incor- 
porated for over a year in the guise 
of a Greek letter fraternity, the Al- 
pha Pi Sigma. 

The papers of incorporation char- 
acterize the Alpha Pi Sigma as a 
“purely fraternal, patriotic society,” 
which will “own and control all re- 
galia necessary to the proper con- 
duct of its affairs” and will “hold 
meetings in groups,” not only in the 
state of New York, but also “in the 
entire United States.” 

This new society is said to have 
been organized by the Klan as a way 
out of difficulties caused by  nullifi- 
eation proceedings against the incor- 
poration of the Knights of the Ku 
Klux Klan. 
due to the fact that alterations were 
made in the papers of incorporation 
between the time they were approved 
by the Supreme Court Judge, George 
E. Pierce, in Buffalo, and subsequent 
filing in Albany. 

Suspicion as to the true nature of 
this ‘frat’” was aroused when it was 
learned that Wilson D. Bush, Kleagle 
and personal representative from At- 
lanta, in New York, whom loyal 
klansmen call “His Excellency,” is 
mentioned in the incorporation pa- 
pers of the society as its president. 
The phrase declaring that “both 
sexes” are eligible for membership 
also aroused suspicion. Then a com- 
parison of these papers with the 
nullified documents of the Knights 
of the Ku Klux Klan revealed their 
very startling similarity. 

Supreme Court Justice Charles L. 
Guy, who approved of and consented 
to the certificate of incorporation, 
when told what had been learned 
about the Alpha Pi Sigma, expressed 
indignation. He said that when he 
approved tie papers of incorporation 
that they were for a college fra- 
ternity. 

Robert L. Noah, who drew up the 
papers declared that he thought Al- 
pha Pi Sigma was to be a general 
fraternity to which college men who 
belonged to any fraternity would be 
eligible-——The Cadet. 


These proceedings were 


DREAMS 


“Life, do not take my dreams away— 
You may have all but these. 
Put poverty upon my back 
And stoop me with disease; 
*Reave me of hope, of friends, of love, 
And what thy whim beseems; 
Make nothing out of all I have— 
But do not slay my dreams.” 
Dreams are very fragile things, and 
yet they are the stuff of which the 
world is made; they are the founda- 
tions of men, institutions, and nations. 
Some man’s dreams have made pos- 
sible all the things which we now en- 
joy. Our beautiful buildings, magnifi- 
cent cities, teeming colleges, gigantic 
business corporations, and marvelous 
inventions are all a product of dreams. 
The splendid, awful, scintillating 
world was conceived and is built en- 
tirely upon a foundation of dreams. 
The homes we love, the college we 
attend, the achievements of science 
and art were founded on dreams. 
Then why do we laugh at the dream- 
er? Why are we ashamed and afraid 
of our own dreams? Your dream may 
sometime be a beautiful painting, 
which will inspire thousands; your 
neighbor’s dream may sometime ma- 
terialize into a great settlement 
house, where many will be comforted; 
my dream may sometime be a pros- 
perous business organization, Are 


these things to be laughed at or to 
be ashamed of? 

Let us be true to our dreams so 
that neither poverty nor disease, de- 
spair nor fear of ridicule, love nor 
hate ean slay them, for they are the 
precious foundation upon which lives 
are built.—Exchange. 


Intercollegiate 
News 


Members of the classes in journal- 
ism at the University of Florida are 
planning a special trip to Tampa early 
in April for the purpose of publish- 
ing a special issue of the Tampa 
Daily Times. The issue of the Times 
published will contain a large number 
of feature articles about the Univer- 
sity. 


Woodrew Wilson College 

Last year the Chamber of Com- 
merce of Milledgeville, Ga., instituted 
a drive for funds for the establishment 
of a Woodrow Wilson Memorial Col- 
lege. Pledges amounting to $500,000 
were raised. A tract of a hundred 
acres was purchased and the drive for 
funds was made country-wide through 
the American Legion and the Ameri- 
can Federation of Labor. 

A committee of educational experts, 
headed by President Sidney Mexes, of 
the College of the City of New York, 
and David F. Houston, a member of 
the Wilson cabinet, were requested to 
advise as to the type of college to 
be created. Limitation of the student 
body to not more than 400 or 500; en- 
rollment of only those students who 
show unmistakable signs of becoming 
leaders; limitation of number of sub- 
jects taught to those conducive to in- 
tellectual leadership; good salaries of- 
fered men of high ability, were the 
recommendations made by the com- 
mittee. 

This advice will, in the main be fol- 
lowed. Quality, not quantity, say the 
proponents of the cause, will be the 
keystone of the college—the type of 
instruction that Woodrow himself 
would have most heartily approved — 
New Student. 


Two Virginia Colleges, Emory and 
Henry, and Stonewall Jackson, have 
jointly received a bequest of $50,000 
from the estate of the late Mrs. J. L. 
Stuart. The fund is to be used for 
scholarships. 


Harvard University is now in its 


289th year of existence, 


‘ 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has given 
$1,000,000, unconditionally, to two 
negro schools, Hampton Institute and 
Tuskegée Institute, according to re- 
cent announcements. 


The Cadet Orchestra at V. M. I. has 
secured an engagement to play on 
the Cunard Liner, S. S. Berengaria, 
this summer. After landing in Europe 
the orchestra will play at a number 
of fashionable resorts before making 
the return trip. 


A. 8. C. INTERCOLLEGIATE DE- 
BATING TEAMS MEET EACH 
OTHER MONDAY NIGHT 


In preparation for the final inter- 
collegiate debates which will take 
place Friday night, the Agnes Scott 
affirmative team met the negative, in 
the chapel Monday night. Both sides 
presented debates in excellent shape, 
and gave promise of putting up a 
stiff fight Friday. Our negative 
team, composed of Dorothy Keith, 
Pocahontas Wight and Eloise Harris, 
leaves for Lynchburg Wednesday, 
chaperoned by Miss Gooch. Isabel 
Ferguson, Catherine Graeber and 
Larson Mattox will defend home ter- 
ritory against Sophie Newcomb. 

Quite a number of students were 
gathered in the chapel Monday night 


to hear the debaters, thanks to the 
interest aroused by a preliminary 
mock debate sponsored in chapel last 
Friday by Pi Alpha Phi. Ellen Wal- 
ker, president of Pi Alpha Phi, stated 
the subject for the mock debate: “Re- 
solved: That Every Girl Should Come 
to the Debate Monday Night,” and 
introduced the two famous speakers, 
Miss Martha Lin Manly and Miss 
Frances Bitzer, both of whom had 
canceled important engagements in 
New York and Washington, respec- 
tively, in order to be with us that 
morning. Miss Manly upheld the af- 
firmative, and gave four convincing 
reasons why all girls at A. S. C, 
should attend the debate Monday: 

1. Because they could thereby es- 
cape the clutches of that Monday 
night fiend, exec. 

2, Because they would thus avoid 
the usual Monday invitation, due to 
being debarred from chapel on that 
day. 

Here Miss Manly dramatically 
called for a glass of water, and was 
quickly supplied. 

3. Because “anticipation is better 
than realization,” and therefore, the 
Monday night debate must be better 
than the Friday night one. 

Two pictures were displayed for il- 
lustration: One of lovers gazing rap- 
turously into each others’ eyes; the 
other, of lovers kissing each other, 
with a somewhat pained expression. 

4. Because answering Miss Manly’s 
appeal to attend the debate would 
give that lecturer desirable publicity. 

Miss Manly closed her debate with 
a sublime exhortation, greatly en- 
forced by her magnetic personality: 
“Please check your chewing gum and 

notebooks at the door; 

And you'll hear of immigration things 
you never heard before.” 

Then Miss Bitzer arose to defend 
the negative. She gave five excellent 
reasons why girls should not attend 
the debate: 

1. Because, by Monday night, girls 
are so enraptured with their week’s 
work that it is hard to tear them- 
selves away from it. 

2. Because the lovely spring moon- 
light is so conducive to studying that — 
one should not leave her room and ~ 
her books, except to have dates. 

3. Because it would be very un- 
pleasant to hear a discussion of im- 
migration, which involves that pessi- 
mistic prediction that if things con- 
tinue as they are, our great grand- 
children will have no standing room; 
all open places will be usurped by 
fruit-stand owners. 

4. Because it would be better to 
be escorted to exec secretly from 
one’s own room than to be led out in 
public view from the chapel, in ig- 
nominy. 

5. Because the ‘dear girls” owe it 
to their mothers to stay in their 
rooms Monday night and study. 

In presenting her last argument, 
Miss Bitzer was quite overcome with 
emotion, and sat down amid much ar- 
tistie sobbing. 

Miss Walker then announced that 
all students were requested to decide 
in favor of the affirmative. 


HAVE YOU FRIENDS EXPECT- 
ING TO ENTER A. S. C. NEXT 
FALL? 


Miss Hopkins requests that all old 
students who know girls expecting to 
enter Agnes Scott next year, tell her 
at once. She likes to know what 
type of girls to expect, for such in- 
formation is very valuable in helping 
her to select roommates and place 
girls in congenial parts of the cam- 
pus. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 


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iences, full and able faculty. Courscs 


leading to A. B. 


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For Catalog, Address J. R. McCAIN, President 


GIDDIE 


Thursday Night. 

Giddy, I don’t know whether I’m 
‘level headed or not tonight, because 
T’m so excited. You see, we had a 
whole sure ’nuff holiday with no 
‘strings tied to it yesterday—and as 
a tee-total surprise too. I told you 
about the money for the gym, didn’t 
I? Well they told us if they got the 
rest of the $7,500, we could have a 
holiday and we did. Everybody 
pledged so grand, and about dinner 
time Tuesday everybody knew about 
it—and do you know I got out of that 
horrible Physics lab, (Don’t tell any- 
body I said horrible tho!) Anyway 
I had the best time I’ve ever had. 

Then that night the Cotillion Club 
had a dance, but never mind, you can 
read all about that in the Agonistic 
I’m sending you. 

Giddy, have you got a true-love? 
Mary Breedlove has—at least some- 
body told me she did. And he was 
dewn—or up I’ve forgotten which— 
here last week-end. His name is 
Isaiah Somebody. I imagine it would 
be real romantic to have one, don’t 
you?—a true love, Giddy, not an 
Tsaiah Somebody. 


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I think Margaret Gholston has two 
because every day for the past week 
she’s gotten a phone call from the 
same place. She hasn’t been able 
to get him yet tho’ and I’m real wor- 
ried about it—she is too. Oh, yes! 
the number is Hemlock 4511, but ev- 
erytime she calls it they say nobody 
there called her. Reckon the boy 
forgot his telephone number? 

I went over to Inman today to get 
a Latin prose—awful thing!—assign- 
ment and every post I saw had “Do 
Not Leave the Campus” on it. I 
couldn’t imagine who it was meant 
for and why, but later France Craig- 
head said that Julia Pepe had been 
compused three days for forgetting 
and breaking restriction and she was 
afraid she’d forget again so she tack- 
ed signs up on all the doors and 
posts so she wouldn’t forget and go 
to town. 

The funniest thing happened the 
other day when two or three girls 
were working a cross-word puzzle 
and they came to a six letter word 
meaning “an edible root.” Frances 
McColgon spoke up and said, “Oh 
yes! I know what that is—it’s ‘pot- 


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ATLANTA BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
ENTERTAINS AGNES SCOTT 
AND EMORY BIOLOGY 
MAJORS 


The Atlanta Biological Association 
entertained the Agnes Scott and 
Emory biology majors, and others 
interested, Friday evening, on the 
third floor, Science Hall, at Agnes 
Scott. The speaker of the evening 
was Dr. Boyd, who lectured on the 
Dr. Boyd has been 
carrying on research work with the 
malaria parasite as it is found in 
canary birds. 

After the lecture, a biological cross- 
word puzzle furnished sport for the 
rest of the evening. The prize for 


malaria parasite. 


the best solution of the puzzle was 
won by Miss Julia Pope, and Mr. 
Mitchell, of Emory; the consolation, 
by Miss Charlotte Buckland and Mr. 
James Walker, of Emory. The first 
prize turned out to be a toy monkey 
climbing a string, and the booby, a 
small rooster. Ice cream and cake 
were served as refreshments, 


ash’. Like in the Bible when it says 
that Esau sold Jacob his birthright 
for a mess of potash.” And Giddy, 
she thought peanuts grew on trees, 
too, because she said something about 
a “peanut tree” the other day. 

You know I told you not long ago 
that nominations were going to be 
this week. Well, they were, and ev- 
erybody is as excited as—as—as— 
Oh, well, I don’t know what. The 
funniest thing was though that lots 
of people nominated Evelyn Sprinkle 
for fire chief just because of her 
I think that’s a very nice 
name tho! Anyway I was nominated 


name, 


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SENIORS TO PRESENT LARSEN 
MATTOX’S PLAY, “ILLUSION” 


The Senior Class is going to pre- 
sent Larsen Mattox’s play “Illusion,” 


on Saturday night, March 21. This 
play has the distinction of being the 
only original play to be given on the 
campus in several years. Larsen 
completed the play just before Mrs. 
Heyward’s visit. While here, Mrs. 
Heyward read it and commented very 


favorably on it. Larsen is the first 
member of the drama writing part of 
Blackfriar’s club. 

The play itself is very interest- 
ing, like that of all other good writ- 
ers, such as Rostand and Shaw, the 
plot deals with the problem of the 
eternal triangle. Virginia, whose 
home is in the Catskill mountains, is 
in love with the hero, who is mar- 
ried. Realizing that she can never 
be married to him she is devoting 
her time to experiment in chemistry. 
Her friend, Gail, who is an author 
of note, comes up to spend the sum- 
mer with her. While there, Gail 
finds out that the hero’s wife has 
been killed in an accident and Vir- 
ginia and the hero are engaged to be 
married later. Having had a love 
affair with him, herself, Gail does 
not believe his sincerity and hints to 
Virginia that if anything were to 
happen to her to spoil her beauty, 
the hero would sacrifice her, to his 
career. 

Virginia decides to test the truth 
of it, and manipulates an explosion 
which is supposed to disfigure her 
face. She writes the hero and tells 
him about it, and also tells him that 
she will understand if he does not 
want to marry her and that he may 
break his engagement to come to see 
her on the next Friday. Gail after- 
wards finds that Virginia’s face has 
not been hurt and after reading the 
hero’s answering note, making a rath- 
er evidently vague excuse for his in- 
ability to come, telegraphs him the 


3 


CASH PRIZES FOR ORIGINATING 
TRADE CHARACTERS 


Now is the chance to make a for- 
tune, with your brains. Oh, no, not by 
selling them, as people have been 
known to do but by using them. Four 
hundred and eighty dollars in prizes 
are being offered to people with orig- 
inality enough to conceive of trade 
characters to represent the following 
retail businesses: 
electrical 


Masons materials, 
supplies, 
heating, ice and hardware. The con- 
test is being conducted by the Pro- 
gressive Merchants Bureau, Inc. A 
trade character is a fanciful figure, 
like the well-known spearmint one, or 
the miniature messenger boy deliver- 
ing Whitman’s Sampler, which typi- 
fies a business or an industry. The 
characters submitted should imme- 
diately suggest the product, and 
should be flexible enough to illustrate 
its uses. The best type is one which 
has real human interest, and pre- 
sents dramatically the uses of the 
products. As many drawings as de- 
sired may be submitted by one per- 
son, if each is put on a separate 
sheet, with name and address of 
sender. The contest closes March 31, 
1925. Address mail to Contest Com- 
mittee, Progressive Merchants Bu- 
reau, Inc., 1819 Broadway, New York 
City. 

The supplies to be advertised and 
the prizes follow: 

Mason’s materials—cement, 
ter, sand, gravel, concrete, etc. 

$50.00—first prize. 

$20.00—second prize. 

$10.00—third prize. 

Electrical supplies—lighting fix- 
tures, motors, radio, percolators, 


plumbing and 


plas- 


for something, too, but I’m not going} truth and requests him to come at irons, wiring, ete.: 


to tell you what. If I get it, then 
Til tell you—otherwise no. 
Good night!! There’s the bell for 


lights to wink and I’ve got something 
very important to do. 
; G’night, 
, AGGIE, 
P. S. Miss Miller’s ghing to let 
us make tea with her tea-pot next 
Sunday night, 


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once. Virginia, who has sunk al- 
most to the depths of despair as a 
result of his communication, is re- 
vived and made exultant by a second 
message telling her that everything 
is all right and that he is hastening 
to her. 
Those taking part in the play are: 
Virginia—Mary Ben Wright. 
Gail—Ruth Harrison. 
Housekeeper—Louise Buchanan. 
Nurse—Frances Tennent. 
The housekeeper furnishes 
comic element of the play. 
Prices will be 50 cents and 35 
cents. The play will be given at 
8:30 o’clock in the chapel. 


the 


Nashville 


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Atlanta 


Are Furs of Elegance and Distinction. An 
unusually striking diversity of Modes of 
Elegance for Spring. 

Expert Remodeling 


Cold Storage 


Compliments 
ot ‘ 


BOOKHAMMERS 


Riley 6 Lacy 


Druggists 
A Complete Line of 


College Supplies and 
Toilet Articles 
Let Us Wrap Your Packages For 
Mailing Free of Charge 


DECATUR BANK BUILDING 
PHONE DEARBORN 1728 


Trio Laundry 
Dry Cleaning 


and 
Shoe Repairing 


“ Atlanta’s Finest’ 


AGENTS 


Florence Perkins Anne McKay 
Margaret Debele 


$50.00—first prize. 

$20.00—seeond prize. 

$10.00—third prize. 

Ice—Commercial and household use: 

$50.00—first prize. 

$20.00—seeond prize. 

$10,.00—third prize. 

Hardware—tools, nails, garden 
hose and supplies, builders hardware: 

$50.00—first prize. 

$20.00—second prize, 

$10.00—third prize. 

Plumbing and Heating—bath tubs, 
showers, piping, sinks, furnaces, ra- 
diators, etc.: 

$50.00—first prize. 

$20.00—second prize. 

$10.00—third prize. 

Automobile accessories — tires, 
headlights, radiators, bumpers, tools: 

$50.00—first prize. 

$20.00—second prize. 

$10.00—third prize, 

The judges: 

F. A, Wilson-Lawrenson, publisher 
of Atlanta Georgian. 

H. P. Longstreet, secretary, Pro- 
gressive Merchants’ Bureau. 

Lockwood Barr, publicity director, 
General Motors. 

Wm. H. Rankin, president Rankin 
Advertising Agency. 

Victor Hanson, publisher Birming~- 
ham News. 


NE of the out- 
standing mer- 
its of Frohsin’s Ap- 
parel is that no one 
is ever in the slight- 
est doubt as to its 


COET CCU Hes 6 — 
whether it be the 
wearer or the pass- 
er-by. 


tion has been sadly neglected. 


THE 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Hard to Bear. 


She: 
enjoy smoking in his den, 
husband a den?” 

Other She: “No, he growls all over 
the house.” 

A Revised List. 

There is a revised list for birth- 
stones: For the tourist, the Yellow- 
stone; for the Irish the Blarneystone; 
for the borrowers, the touchstone, and 
for the most of us, the grindstone. 


“My husband certainly does 
Has your 


Teacher: “Who knows what races 
of people have black eyes?” 

Horace Tibbs: “Shieks and prize 
fighters.” 


When woman was made out of a 
man’s rib, someone pulled a bone. 

Happy: “The average woman has 
a vocabulary of only 500 words.” 
Thot: “It’s a small stock, but think 
of the turn-over.” 


Prof: “This is the third time you’ve 
looked on Jones’ paper.” 

Stude: “Yes, sir, he doesn’t write 
very plainly.” 


Tired business men are drawn to 
the musical shows by the unattired 
chorus girl. 


They say cats have nine lives, but 
frogs croak every night. 


A Tech jMinstrel song entitled, 
“When it’s Onion Time in Bermuda, 
T'll Be Wafting Back to You,” 


“Tom, fetch me a stick of wood.” 
“Oh, mother,” replied Tom. “The 
grammatical portion of your educa- 
5 You 
should say, “Thomas, my son, trans- 


' port from that recumbent collection of 


¢combustile material on the threshold 
of this edifice, one of those curtailed 
excrescences of defunct log.” 


VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM 
ANNOUNCED 


From the girls who have been play- 
ing in the class basketball games on 
Friday nights, the college varsity for 
1925 has been chosen, and was an- 
nounced in chapel last Friday, March 
13. To choose the six best players 
from the abundance of excellent ma- 
terial out this year was no easy task, 
and, in some instances, the athletic 
board, unable to decide the tie, gave 
three places on the varsity instead of 
two. The team as announced is: 

Forwards—Ellen Walker, Eunice 
Kell and Mary Cunningham, 

Guards—Mary Keesler, Elizabeth 
Lynn. 

Jumping Center—Mary Anne Mc- 
Kinney. 

Side Centers—Belle 
Eleanor Albright. 


Walker and 


Louise: “What’s that noise I hear? 
Sounds like the swishing of a girl in 
an old fashioned skirt.” 

Margy: “Oh, that’s only Charlie in 
his new-style wide trousers.” 


In a Freshman’s Eyes. 


A Senior stood on a railroad track; 
The train was coming fast; 

The train got off the railroad track 
And let the Senior pass. 


Think of it! A couple got married 
a few days ago after a courtship 
which lasted fifty years, 


I suppose the poor old man was too 
feeble to hold out any longer. 


NOMINATIONS MADE FOR SES- 
SION 1925-1926 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 1) 


Secretary—M. Green, Bledsoe, Se- 
vier. 
Treasurer—Sevier, N. 
Bridgeman. 
Undergraduate Representative— 


Jacobsen, Peeler, Houston. 


L. Knight, 


Silhouette 
Editor-in-chief — Graeber, Lingle, 


Hollingsworth. 

Assistant Editor—Henderlite, Shaw, 
Hollingsworth. 

Business Manager—Clarke, C. 
Mitchell, S. Smith. 

Assistant Business Manager— 


Mitchell, McCall, E. Gaines. 
Aurora 


Editor—Ogden, Hollingsworth, tie, 
Tufts, Duls. 

Assistant Editor—Bull, tie, Winter, 
Clayton; tie, Zachery, Preston. 

Business Manager—Shields, tie, S. 
Smith, Crowe; I. Clarke. 

Assistant Business Manager—Wat- 
son, tie, Shields, J. Greer; tie, Ferrell, 
Kingsberry. 


Agonistic 


Editor-in-chief—Duls, Ogden, tie, 
Shields, Harris, Graeber, Lingle. 

Assistant Editor—F. Buchanan, tie, 
Henderson, Preston; McCall. 

Business Manager—S, Smith, Har- 
ris, Shields. 

Assistant Business Manager—Mc- 
Call, Edmondson, Craighead. 


Athletic Association 


President — Slaughter, Carpenter, 
tie, Johnson, Fain. 

Vice-President—Johnson, 
ter, tie, Redding, Slaughter. 

Secretary—Lynn, Cunningham, Al- 
bright. 

Treasurer—Albright, Cunningham, 
Lynn. 

Song Leader—Powell, 
A. Knight. 

Orchestra Leader 
Robyns, Bennett. 

Fire Chief—Sprinkle, tie, Rebele, 
Lingle; E. Jones, 


Carpen- 


Hermance, 


Norfleet, 


Rialto 


Week 
March 


16° 


"THE FORNADO” 
With House Peters 


> 


One woman and two men—a storm of love and hate and passion 


and then—the Tornado. 


Man separated them but the God of storms swept them together— 


“A Ton of Trouble’ 


A Fox Imperial Comedy 


Pathe News 


Piggly Wiggly 


Agnes Scott girls are always 
welcome— 


Wiggle thru and help yourself. | 
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT | 


G. B. Spearman, Mer. 


WELCOME 


Hewey’s Drug Store 


Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


For prompt service 
Phone 
Dec. 0640 


JUNIORS PRESENT FASHION 
SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


Time hangs hands you 
find? 
Gaze on this scene on the terrace 
And I’m sure you'll change your 


mind. 


on your 


Perhaps you are a little weary 
After morning’s recreation 
A quiet afternoon is pleasant 
With its social conversation. 


Maids in dainty frocks and aprons 
Softly round the terrace trip, 

Fill the teacups so refreshing 
Which at leisure you may sip. 


You, you say, would like to come 
To that enjoyable affair? 
All you need to do is simply 
Buy a dress that you can wear. 
Mildred Morrow, Elizabeth Clarke, 
Virginia Grimes, Elizabeth Cope, 
Martha Rose Childress, and Mary 
Breedlove, each flitted in with a gay 
afternoon dress on and were served 
tea with Virginia Peeler and Mary 
Lewis acting as dainty maids. 
Again Frisky read: 
If you can look through filmy veil 
of moonlight 
On loveliness by fashion’s charm 
enhanced, 
If you can gaze on 
splendor, 
And see the men by beauty’s show 
entranced; 


ladies clad in 


If you can think of sparkling dinner 
parties 
Where you could shine in dazzling 
array, 
Or evenings with the music of the 
ball room 
Where you could dance the happy 
hours away; 


If you could think of all these enter- 
tainments 
And realize these 
; your call, 
If you can lo all this and still not 
buy teem, 
Why then, milady, you’ve no sense 
at all, 


gowns are at 


After this, five girls drifted in- 
to the country club house in gorg- 
eous evening, gowns, capes trimmed 
in ostrich feathers, Spanish scarfs. 
The ones showing the proper thing 
to wear in the evening were: Mary 
Keesler, Jo Walker, Grace Boone, 
Edythe Coleman and Mary Weems, 

The last scene was one of triumph, 
the appearance of the fashion queen, 
Jo Douglass, with all the above men- 
tioned models as her attendants. Then 
the audince was shown why women 
are such slayes to fashion. 


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AGONISTIC 


POETRY CLUB MEETS 


The Poetry Club had a delightful 
meeting with Mary Riviere, last 
Thursday evening in the cabinet room. 
Announcement was made of three 
prizes offered this year to poets, One 
contest, conducted by a Methodist 
organization, closed on March 15th; 
another sponsored by our Alumnae, 
will close April 15, and the third, a 
national contest, will be open until 
May 15. Quite a number of poems 
were read and criticised at the meet- 
ing Thursday night, among them, 
some by Margaret Bull, Mary Ri- 
viere and Edith Richards. Miss Pres- 
ton and Miss Bland read Sonnets, the 
inspiration for which dated from the 
time of Mr. Heyward’s visit. Delicious 
refreshments of whipped cream and 
cakes ended the evening’s enjoyment. 


A POEM 


I love to watch people eat cold slaw; 
It reminds me of so many things: 
Little boys flying kites, 
Ladies’ petticoats hanging down, 
Trailing wisteria, 
Bundles come untied, 
Hay riders in the autumn moon 
light, 
Torn curtains 
breeze, 
Dead narcissus stalks, 
Feathers on a courtier’s hat, 
Marcelled hair minus a net, 
Niagara Falls. 
I love to watch people eat cold slaw; 
It reminds me of so many things. 


flapping in the 


AGNES SCOTT GIRLS ATTEND 
HEIFETZ’S CONCERT 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 
1: 

Second Sonato—Enesco. 
Il. 
a. Madrigal—Aubert, 
b. La plus que lent—Debussy. 
e. Clouds—Cecil Burleigh. 
d. Capitan Francesca—Castelnuo- 
vo-Tedesco, 
IIl. 
a. Romance—Wagner. . 
b. Capriccio (from 4th Suite)— 
Ries. 
c. Arva (Valse Mignonne)—Juon. 
d. Legende—Godowsky. 
e. Hebrew Dance—Joseph Achron. 
IV 
Souvenir de Moscow—Wieniawsky. 
Mr. Isidor Achron at the piano, 


Salesman: “I’d like to interest you 
in a cotton gin. The cotton gin, you 
know, is one of the world’s greatest 
productions,” 

Prospect: “Is that so? Well, send 
me up a dozen bottles; I’ll try any- 
thing once.” 


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Student Life In 
Denmark . 


By Ingeborg Liisberg 


(Fellow of the American- 
Scandinavian Foundation) 


(Continued from last Week) 


The Students’ Association likewise> 


provides free legal aid for students 


by calling volunteer lawyers from the- 


law department and arranges lecture 
courses for artizans and workmen 
conducted by scientists and technical 
specialists. 

There are many minor clubs, clubs 
for every science and profession, dra- 
matics and music. The Students’ 
Singing Society, which is almost one 
hundred years old, has great popu- 
larity in Denmark, and has made 
tours to foreign capitals and uni- 
versities singing their own gay stu- 
dent songs, folk songs, and festival 
cantatas. Organized athletics have. 
only recently won a place in the stu- 
dent life. There are clubs for rowing, 
football, cricket, fencing, boxing, 
track athletics, tennis, swimming, and 
formal gymnastics. There are many’ 
differences. between the sport of 
Denmark and America. Football is 
most like American soccer, and in 
rowing the four-oared shell is used 
rather tha nthe eight-oared shell prev- 
alent in America. The eight-oared! 
shells are bad sea boats and the Dan- 
ish crew often takes long trips around 
the islands «cf Denmark and even 
across to Norway. In the spring of 
1922 four-oar outriggers won the 
Scandinavian championships and at 
Hamburg won a race in which twelve 
German crews were entered, 

The constitutional monarch of the 
University of Copenhagen is the Rec- 
tor Magnificus, who daring his brie. 
term of offiee—one year—is the ad- 
ministrative officer of the Univer- 
sity and a member of the King’s 
court, attending all ceremonial and 
state functions wearing the great 
golden chain of his office. Like a 
constitutional monarch, the Rector 
has his cabinet conta of twenty 
elected members of the faculty, who 
meet in the oldest’ building of. the 
University, indeed of the city. This 
little building of red stone, beneath 
which is a erypt with two delicate 
columns, was erected in the fifteenth 
century and has been the meeting 
place of the cabinet of the University 
since the middle of the sixteenth cen- 
tury. There was a time when the 
cabinet was the board of censorship 
for the literature and drama of the 
country, and could sentence students 
to a term in the crypt. Nowadays 
the refractory student is disciplined 
by suspension from the University. 

The student of today looks upon his 
work at the University as a serious 
profession. In the words of a for- 
mer Rector, Professor Jespersen, “the 
time has passed when the students 
could regard themselves and could 
be regarded as a special class who 
looked down upon others as philis- 
tines who were snoring while the stu- 
dents were pearl fishing—not always 
for the clearest and most precious 
pearls! They cannot regard them- 
selves as a class placed above all oth- 


ers, nor do they, as a hundred or half 
a hundred years ago, belong to a defi- 
nite social life. Thanks to the democ- 
ratizing of society and the small ex- 
pense of instruction, lesser folk can 
now send their sons to the Univer- 
sity.” The American student who en- 
ters this democratic community, per- 
haps as one of five fellows sent to 
Denmark each year by the American- 
Scandinavian Foundation, will re- 
member with pleasure, and profit al- 
so, the year spent at this northern 
home of scholarship and science, He 
may be sure of a hearty welcome from 
his brother students at the ancient 
University of Copenhagen. 


#|/Che Agonistic 


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———————————— OO — — — —— ieee EME —l( RE —_—————— 
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1925 


Vol. X 


Student Elections Held 
For Coming Year 


Browning, Peeler, Slaughter, 
‘Graeber, Ogden, Duls, 
Till, Chief Officers 


Agnes Scott has weathered two 
elections this year, the national presi- 
dential election which took place in 
the fall, and the student elections 
which took place Thursday after- 
noon. The two, of course, cannot be 
compared in importance, but there 
was greater interest on the campus 
in the latter. Nor is it strange that 
this should be so. Few of the girls 
were of the legal age to vote in the 
fall elections, there was not enough 
doubt as to the outcome to make 
things very exciting, and there was 
the feeling that our desires could 
make very little difference, and that 
under the present scheme, things 
would run along in much the same 
fashion, no matter who was elected. 

There was not nearly so much 
apathy in regard to the student elec- 
tions. Seniors sorrowfully cast their 
votes with the feeling that this was 
the last time they would have any 
say-so about the conduct of Agnes 
Scott. Freshmen eagerly made their 
first venture in the “political” field. 
Sophomores and juniors felt keenly 
their responsibility in the matter. The 
importance of every vote was real- 
ized, and the forecast of popular 
nominations could not be trusted. 

The officers for next year would be 
a worthy acquisition of any college. 
They are well selected, ‘since fitness 
for their positions and not personal 
popularity was the criterion of the 
voters. They promise to represent 
the student body well next year, and 
‘the Agonistic offers thhem congratu- 
Jations and best wishes for a suc- 
cessful year. 

Those elected were: 

Student Government. 

President—Virginia Browning. 

1st vice-president—Ellen Fain. 


2nd vice-president—Helena Her- 
mance. 

8rd vice-president — Evelyn 
Sprinkle. 


Secretary—Maurine Bledsoe. 
Treasurer—Ellen Doug. Leyburn. 
Member College Council—Jo North. 
Student treasurer—Olivia Swann. 
Chairman of auditing committee— 
Elizabeth Callen. 
¥. W..C. A; 
President—Virginia Peeler. 
Vice-president—Margaret Tufts. 
Secretary—Marcia Green. 
Treasurer—Virginia Sevier. 
Undergraduate representative — 
Elsie Jacobson. 

Athletic Association. 
President—Sarah Slaughter. 
Viee-President—Sterling Johnson. 
Secretary—Mary Cunningham. 
Treasurer—Blizabeth Lynn. 

Cheer Leader—Evelyn Powell. 
Orchestra Leader—Mary Ray Dobyns. 
Fire Chief—Peg Debele. 

Silhouette. 
Editor—Catherine Graeber. 
Assistant Editor—Rachel 

ite. 
(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) 


Mr. J. J. Scott Member 
Board of Trustees 


Mr. J. J. Scott was elected a mem- 
ber of our board of trustees to suc- 
ceed his father, Mr. Z. B. Scott. Mr. 
J. J. Scott is a grandson of Colonel 
Y. W. Scott, the founder of our col- 
lege. 

He received his early education in 
the Decatur schools, later attending 
Bingham Military Academy, and the 
University of Georgia. 

After finishing college he went 
West for some years, returning to 
go in business with his father, in 
the management. of the Scott-Dale 
Mills. Since the death of his father, 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) 


Hendel- 


Mr. Bergthold 
Talks On Student 
Friendship Fund 


Hoase brought Mr. Bergthold 
to the college Wednesday morning to 
talk to the student body during the 
chapel period about the Student 
Friendship Movement. Mr. Berg- 
thold is a resident of Decatur, but 
he comes as representative of the In- 
ternational Y. M. GC. A —having 
spoken very often before audiences of 
college men. ; 

The point which he stressed most 
was friendship—a friendship that 
promotes active friendly relations be- 
tween American and foreign students. 
We, as students of the New World, 
should willingly support this move- 
ment. And what are the evidences 
that we are living in a new world? 
One of the very first that naturally 
comes to our minds is the political 
and economic independence of wom- 
en. Across the ocean, too, there have 
been epoch making changes in gov- 
ernments. There are evidences, also, 
of close friendly international rela- 
tions in cooperative efforts to prevent 
war and in extensive commerce. This 
commerce, in turn, has been made 
possible by great improvements in in- 
dustry, transportation and communi- 
cation. These evidences certainly 
convince one of the existence of a 
New World. 

Yet, has our spiritual development 
kept pace with our economic and polit- 
ical development? Mr. Bergthold 
says it has not, and that the only 
hope is in the studen’ mind. 

More particularly do the nations of 
Europe who have been demoralized 
by war and change of government 
need the support of these student 
minds. Yet, how can these students 
serve their mission when faced with 
dire need. First of all they have 
physical needs of nourishment, cloth- 
ing, and shelter. Perhaps as a re- 
sult of this has come need for better- 
ment of health of these students. 
In one college, investigation was 
made, and it was found that four per 
cent of the students were in good 
health; fifty-five per cent were seri- 
ously undernourished; and one per 
cent in such condition that ‘they 
should have been isolated. 

The characteristics of the student 
mind which give great yitality and 
strength to any nation are abounding 
hopefulness, so often lacking in older 
minds; idealism, which is the basis 
(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 


New Proctors Chosen 
To Serve Two Months 


The new Proctor system which was 
agreed upon by ‘college council and 
the students went into effect on Tues- 
day, March 17. The following girls 
with Marie Rose as chairman were 
chosen as members of the Proctor 
board: 

In Rebekah Scott—Evelyn Powell, 
Roberta Winter, Courtney Wilkinson, 
Grace Carr, Sarah Tate, Mary P. 
Brown. 

In Maine—Sarah Glenn, Jack An- 
derson, Louise Thomas, Josephine 
Walker. 

In Inman—Mary Weems, Dorothy 
Chamberlain, Hulda MeNeel, Sterling 


Johnson, Elizabeth Lynn, Elizabeth 
Moore. 
In Whitehouse—Charlotte Buck- 
land. 


In Sturgis—Elizabeth Greer. 

In Lupton—Jessie Hoffman. 

This board is an important part of 
the Student Government Association, 
and it is hoped that all of the girls 
will cooperate in making it a suc- 
cessful means of securing better or- 
der in the dormitories. 


Senior Class Presents 
“Tilusion” 


All Star Cast Interprets Play 
Written by Larsen Mattox 


The Senior Class scored quite a 
success last Saturday night in the 
presentation of a play, “Illusion,” 
written and acted by its own mem- 
bers. The author of the play is 
Larsen Mottox, well-known on our 
campus as a short-story writer of 
ability, and recently received into 
Blackfriars as the first member of 
that branch of the club which will 
write and produce plays to be acted 
by the other members of the society. 
Before the curtains parted Saturday 
evening, the audience sang to Larsen, 
and then called out insistently, 
‘Author! Author!” until she ap- 
peared on the stage, when a burst of 
applause greeted Blackfriar’s first 
playwright. 

The play itself is an excellent piece 
of art, well written and well moti- 
vated. It held the strictest attention 
of its audience. The plot is the eter- 
nal triangle, this time made up of 
two women and a man. The hero, 
though the motivating force of the 
whole play, never appears on the 
stage. Gail, a cynic, and a famous 
novelist, once and perhaps still, in 
love with the hero, Lord Roberts, 
tries to convince her cousin, Virginia, 
a trusting, unsophisticated fiancee of 
the unfaithfulness of Lord Roberts’ 
love. Virginia will not believe. A 
chemical explosion which mars Vir- 
ginia’s face brings out the truth; 
Lord Roberts gives her up. But Gail 
sends him a wire which brings him 
back to himself, and the play ends 
with a message from Lord Roberts 
to Virginia that he will be there im- 
mediately—externally a comic end- 


ing, certainly; but really, tragic, for 


the audience feels that Virginia is 
laboring under an illusion; that Lord 
Roberts in whom she trusts is at heart 
the unfaithful lover of Gail’s con- 
ception. The tense feeling through- 
out the play is relieved by the humor- 
ous remarks of Virginia’s ald house- 
keeper, who is continually “burning 
her potatoes.” The acting was of 
course unusually good, as the four 


(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) 


Agnes Scott Girl 
Queen of Peach 
Festival 


Other Alumnae Maids of Honor 


Agnes Scott always expects great 
things of her children, but when one 
suddenly becomes a queen, and two 
others maids of honor,—well, Agnes 
Scott is duly proud, as are all of her 
other children who have not as yet 
stepped into the “wide, wide world.” 
The causes of the swelling of our 
Alma Mater’s pride are: Ruth Evans, 
Elizabeth Brown, and Nell Buchanan. 
Ruth, a 1922 graduate, will be queen, 
and Elizabeth and Nell, maids of 
honor, at this fourth annual Peach 
Blossom Festival at Fort Valley, 
Georgia. 

The festival, which all Georgians 
know is one of the most picturesque 
annual events given in the country, 
took place on Thursday and Fri- 
day, March 19 and 20. 

The program, in which our girls 
played so important a part, it was as 
follows, for both Thursday and Fri- 
day: 

Coronation ceremonies—9:45 a. m. 

Float parade—10:15 a. m. 

Exhibition Drills and Fancy Riding 
Detachment Sixth Cavalry U. 8. 
Army—11:15 a. m. 

Old Fashioned Georgia Barbecue— 


12:15 p. m. 

Pageant: “The Trail of Pink 
Petals”—2:00 p. m. 

Exhibition Drills. 

Cossack riding; Roman riding; 
high jumping; night attack; Star 
shells; Pyrotechnics — Detachment 


Sixth Cavalry U. S. Army—8:00 p. m. 


Triangular Debates 
Draw Large Crowds 


Prof. Beblin Lectures 
To Mathematics Club 


If any student allowed the forbid- 
ding title of Professor Beblin’s lec- 
ture, “Plane Geometry as a Branch 
of Physics,” to keep her away from 
the open meeting of the Mathematics 
club last Thursday night, she was 
very much mistaken as to the tone 
of the lecture. Mr, Beblin is profes- 
sor of Mathematics at Princeton Uni- 
versity, and he is a nationally known 
mathematician. During the World 
War he was an officer in the Ord- 
nance department of the Army, and 
in this capacity he was instrumental 
in increasing the range of projectiles 
over twenty-five per cent. 

Under his skillful handling, a high- 
ly technical subject became one of 
great interest to his listeners. 

He began his lecture by explaining 
the abstract view of geometry .. . 
the view which makes it simply a 
branch of mathematics. Regarding 
it from this angle, geometry is 
founded on a series of axioms. It is 
not required of these axioms that 
they be true; but it is necessary that 
they do not contradict one another. 
Also, they must be stated in unde- 
fined terms. A definition tends to go 
back of a word, to search for its in- 
trinsic meaning, which can never be 
quite found. So in order to have a 
beginning for any science, certain un- 
defined terms must be accepted as 
its basis. Professo~ Beblin defined 
geometry, from a mathematician’s 
point of view, as a system of proposi- 
tions expressed in undefined terms, 
and arrived at by enyrect logical reas- 
oning. 

But from the physicist’s point of 
view—the point of view from which 
Professor Beblin believed geometry 
should be taught—it is a system of 
propositions whose truth must be 
tested by experiment. That is the 
vital difference between the two con- 
ceptions. A mathematician, having 
arrived at certain conclusions by what 
he believes to be correct reasoning, 
makes no attempt to prove by physical 
means the truth of his assumptions. 
The physicist, on the other hand, 
checks all his assumptions by means 
of experiments and attempts to iden- 
tify and locate undefined terms. 

In physical researches are found 
the basis of geometry. For this reas- 
on, Professor Beblin contends that 
students should be taught, first phy- 
sics and then geometry, as a branch 
of that science. They should learn ge- 
ometry by means of physical ob- 

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Alumnae Offer Poetry 
Prize For 1925 


The annual poetry contest spon- 
sored by the Alumnae Association has 
been announced for this year. 

The regulations are: 

1, There will be a prize of fifty 
dollars offered to the alumnae and 
undergraduates for the best poem 
submitted before April 15, 1925. 

2. Each contestant may submit only 
one poem, and this must be in dupli- 
cate. 

3. The judges are Charles Hanson 
Towne, Du Bose Heyward, and Har- 
vey Allen. 

4. The award will be announced at 
commencement, 

5. Poems should be sent to Nell 
Buchanan, General Secretary of the 
Alumnae Association, Agnes Scott 
College, before April 15. 

Each year there is a great deal of 
interest in this prize, and the contest 
is looked forward to especially this 
year because one of the judges is Du- 
Bose Heyward, who recently with 
Mrs. Heyward, spent several days 
with us at the college. His visit has 

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a 


Agnes Scott Wins One and 
Loses One. Randolph 
Macon Wins Both 
Negative and 
Affirmative 


The great triangular debate, an 
annual event which is looked forward 
to with eager anticipation for many 
weeks, which is worked for, longed 
for, and greatly to be desired, took 
place last Friday night. The ques- 
tion for discussion was, “Resolved: 
“That the American Immigration Act 
of 1924 Will Promote the Best Inter- 
ests of the United States.” Our af- 
firmative team, composed of Isabel 


Ferguson, Catherine Graeber, and 
Larsen Mattox, alternate, opposed 
Sophie Newcomb’s negative team, 


made up of Charlotte Voss, Ethel 

Bauer, and Ruby Foster, alternate. 
The debates are held between So- 

phie Newcomb, Randolph-Macon, and 


.| Agnes Scott in the spring of every 


year, and have become a decidedly 
interesting, thrilling and vital part 
of the yearly program of the colleges 
concerned. These debates first began 
in 1914 between Sophie Newcomb and 
Agnes Scott. Later, in 1921, Ran- 
dolph-Macon joined in, and thus the 
triangle was formed. The affirmative 
teams stay at home, while the nega- 
tive teams go forth to battle for 
their respective Alma Maters on un- 
known soil. The questions chosen as 
subjects for consideration are con- 
cerned with present day affairs which 
are of vital importance in the life 
of the nation. 


The debate was scheduled to begin 
at half-past eight, but long before 
the appointed hour, a large crowd 
had gathered in the chapel. The slo- 
gan, “Come early and avoid the rush,” 
had been obeyed by many who wanted 
to be sure of getting a good place. 

Banners of Sophie Newcomb and 
Agnes Scott hung at the back of the 
stage, and a basket of gay peach 
blossoms added a touch of spring to 
the scene. The crowd presented quite 
a contrast, for nothing about it re- 
sembled the stately dignity of the 
banners, or the calm still beauty of 
the spring flowers. The throng was 
in high spirits and ready to make 
any amount of noise, but Helena Her- 
mance, our ever present and ever 
resourceful cheer-leader, was on hand 
to calm the rabble and permit all to 
give vent to their emotions with songs 
and cheers. The excitement grew as 
the moments slipped by, and, after 
what seemed almost an eternity of - 
waiting, the fateful hour arrived. 
The audience stood up and sang, first, 
the Alma Mater of Sophie Newcomb, 
and then that of Agnes Scott. The 
debaters, clad in white, marched on 
the stage amidst a veritable burst of 
applause. 

Catherine Graeber, first speaker 
for the affirmative, presented the 
question, “Resolved: That the Ameri- 
can Immigration Act of 1924 Wil 
Promote the Best Interests of the 
United States,” and by way of in- 
troduction, showed that it has been 


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Dr. Carroli Lectures 
Monday Evening 


Dr. Mallie Ray Carroll of Goucher 
College spoke on the League of Wom- 
en Voters last Monday evening. Dr. 
Carroll is making a tour of colleges in 
behalf of the League and brought us 
new ideas of our responsibilities. We 
welcomed her even more cordially be- 
cause she is a colleague of Dr. Peters 
who spoke to us last fall on vocational 
guidance. Carroll herself is a fine 
speaker; everyone benefited by the 
lecture and was not sorry that she 
had given time to attending it. The 
lecture was given in the chapel at 
8:30 under the auspices of the lec- 
ture association. 


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RELAXATION 


Ponce de Leon left the sunny fiields of Spain and came to 
Florida, seeking the Fountain of Youth. Every now and then a 
patriarch, who has lived to see his hundredth birthday, voices be- 
lief through the medium of the paper that man need never die. 
When one becomes sick, he goes to a doctor, in order to prolong his 
life. Evidently, there is in man an instinct for self-preservation, 
a desire to make life’s span on earth as broad as he can. Doubt- 
less, then, he will welcome any aid toward the prolongation of life 
which does not require of him too high a price. Such an aid is 
relaxation—simple, physical, bodily relaxation—and relaxation is 
a condition not only of health but also of good poise and of pleas- 
ant voice. 

In advocating the advantage of relaxation, we do not urge 
a return to the old-time habits of sleeping one hour after dinner 
(though undoubtedly it was a good one). Perhaps the science de- 
partments should have slight objections to students napping on 
the laboratory tables while frogs are being chloroformed, or elec- 
tric currents are “making lightning”, or H-2 SO-4 is being 
mixed with something equally as formidable. To relax, one need 
not lie down. It is relaxation practically all the time, while walk- 
ing across the campus, while studying, reciting, talking, eating, 
that we would have. Many times a day one sees girls hurrying, 
even running to classes, tense, “keyed up,” chest constricted, arms 
cramped. Such a procedure is the opposite of healthful (to say 
nothing of being a little unlady-like). Why not leave the room 
a minute or two earlier and have time to walk freely and easily, 
without tension and constriction of the organism? 

In the library one often sees girls grasping their chairs or 
pencils frantically, or kicking their feet, or bent over the table 
with humped shoulders and narrowed chest, and, sometimes, even 
chewing gum at a rate far surpassing the speed limit. All these 
acts are evidences of nervous tension and of constriction. To relax 
the hands, the feet, the chest, the jaws, would release energy from 
them and allow it to go to the brain. We should then have free 
bodies and brains at a high level tension. To relax the organism 
is not so difficult if one makes a habit of trying it. It is simply 
necessary to consciously give up every part of the organism to the 
forces of gravity and to breathe correctly, with the diaphragm, 
as one does in sleeping. Such relaxation is most favorable to 
conditions of health, and lack of it, most unfavorable. 

But relaxation also breeds social poise. To be free and 
easy, to feel in absolute control of oneself, is to have confidence and 
with confidence comes social poise. 

The sympathetic relaxation of th eorganism establishes the 
condition not only of poise, but also of good tone. Good tone is 
a great asset, for the quality of a person’s voice is an index to his 
character. A thin timid voice implies diffidence; a full, rich one, 
confidence; a “heady” tone, lack of deep thinking; a cold one, in- 
tellect without emotion, etc. Besides beautiful tone should be 
developed simply from the esthetic point of view. _Now, to develop 
good tone, relaxation is necessary. Every constriction of the or- 
ganism affects the voice unfavorably; and excessive stiffness and 
constriction bring about coldness and narrowness, nasality and the 
like. 

Relaxation—it seems too simple a matter to have far-reach- 
ing effects on health, poise and voice. But the simplest beliefs and 
practices are often the most fundamental. In this day of hurry 
and strain, it is advantageous for Americans, especially, to realize 
whither leads a constant physical condition of tenseness. Perhaps, 
if we did, we should have fewer “nervous wrecks,” 


MANY ENJOY SOCIAL FUNC- 
TIONS ATTENDING EMORY 
LITTLE COMMENCEMENT 


The past week at Emory Univer- 
sity, the second annual Little Com- 
mencement at which seven students 
received degrees, was one of most 
enjoyable social events with nearly 
a hundred girls as visitors. 

The guests were received on Friday 
afternoon. On Friday evening the 
Emory Glee Club gave its annual At- 
lanta concert at the Woman’s Club 
auditorium. After this performance, 
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Hunter entertained 
for Bats Society with a formal re- 
ception at East Lake Country Club. 


Degrees were conferred on those 
who had completed the requirements 
at the end of the quarter in Convoca- 
tion exercises held in the Theological 
building Saturday morning. 

At noon Saturday, visiting girls 
were entertained at luncheon by a 
number of organizations. 

On Saturday afternoon a tea was 
given in a downtown hotel by the 
Senior class, honoring all visitors who 
attended Little Commencement. Fol- 
lowing this, the finals in the Pan-Hel- 
basketball 
played off on the Emory court, 


lenic tournament were 

The Student Activities Council gave 
a buffet supper at Habersham on 
Saturday evening, the council being 
one of the sponsors of Little Com- 
mencement. 

At the Winter Quarter Convoca- 
tion held in the Theological chapel on 
Tuesday morning, March 24, Dr. Al- 
bert A. Murphee, president of the 
University of Florida, delivered the 
baccalaureate address, and at this 
time seven students received degrees. 


COTILLION CLUB DANCE GREAT 
SUCCESS 


The Cotillion Club entertained on 
Tuesday night with another of those 
brilliant affairs which help to give to 
our campus life that much desired 
but evanescent social quality. 


Each member of the club was priv- 
ileged to invite one guest and these 
appeared gowned in frocks appro- 
priate to the season and to the oc- 
casion 


and accompanied by her 


hostess, equally gay. 

Music was provided for the dancing 
by a four-piece orchestra secured for 
the occasion through the influences 
of the officers of the club and was 
especially goo dentertaining guests 
by unusual renditions of the latest 
dance music. 


The floor was good and extremely 
well populated for interest in the 
dancing waned not at all. Punch and 
drawing the 
couples, however, and in adding to 
the general and complete enjoyment. 


cakes succeeded in 


SOPHIE-NEWCOMB DEBATERS 
ENTERTAINED 


The Sophie-Newcomb debaters were 
very cordially welcomed on their ar- 
rival Friday morning. They are our 
be- 
cause we fight against them through 
the medium of debate, and Friendly 
because they come from a sister 
college, striving for the 


‘Friendly Enemies’—Enemies 


southern 
same ideals that we strive for. 


The debaters were assured of their 
welcome again at the luncheon given 
for them in Rebeccah Scott dining 
room, 


Nothing was planned for Friday 
afternoon, as they needed rest to pre- 
pare them for the excitement of that 
night. 

On Saturday morning, Miss Hearon 
entertained the debaters of both our 


team and the visiting team at break- 


A a a el eee 
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Intercollegiate 
News 


“There are two great social prob- 
lems of today,” says Dr. Carlton J. 
H. Hayes in a recent lecture on prob- 
lems of the present social order, in- 
ternationally and nationally, given at 
the North Carolina College for Wo- 
men. Dr. Hayes, in his lecture, pointed 
out that the two greatest social prob- 
lems of today are: Lack of interest of 
the worker in the goods he is produc- 
ing, and the degradation and poverty 
that is resulting from modern improve- 
ments instead of the comfort and 
wealth that should have resulted. The 
speaker further pointed out that 
though these problems cannot be en- 
tirely cured, they can be greatly miti- 
gated by each person doing his in- 
dividual duty. 

In keeping with the modern trend of 
teaching languages by speech in place 
of by book and translation, the ad- 
ministration at Emory University has 
seen fit to establish a laboratory pe- 
riod in the basic French courses. At- 
tendance to these conversational ses- 
sions is entirely optional with the 
students. 

Instruction in American universities 
encourages a spirit of dependency and 
paternalism as contrasted with the 
European universities, is the opinion 
given by Prof. Lawson of the Uni- 
versity of California. 

“In foreign countries the student 
is left to his own resources in fol- 
lowing his college work, but here he 
expects to be driven and does not 
develop his initiative or personality. 
He is encouraged to memorize instead 
of apply his knowledge.” 

Three days to lengthen their skirts, 
put collars around their necks, throw 
away lipsticks and powder puffs—or 
This is what 
the women at Union College, Pa., 
found themselves up against two 
weeks ago. The idea behind the ruling 
is that the girl of today should be 
inconspicuous in dress. Since there 
is no record of any of them leaving 
school for violating the ruling, we 
may conclude that they are the most 
inconspicuously dressed girls in col- 


be barred from: school! 


lege today. 


RETURNS FROM GREEK BAZAAR 
INCREASE 


Miss Campbell announces that a 
total of $260.00 has already been 
made from the articles made by the 


Greek refugees. She still has some 


of these articles left in her room and 
will be glad to dispose of them. 


fast in the tea-room, and everyone 
there enjoyed her hospitality. 

Pi Alpha Phi gave the debaters a 
very lovely luncheon at the Biltmore, 
after an automobile ride to Stone 
Mountain, at noon, and the debaters 
left in the afternoon. 

The debaters made a lasting im- 
pression on Agnes Scott girls, and 
we hope that they will come again, 


¥. W. C. A. 


The old cabinet is now extending 
the glad hand of fellowship to its 
new officers; we who are leaving so 


soon are wishing for those who come 
in, the greatest joy and success in 
the duties they are undertaking, and 
we are glad beyond measure that we 
can leave the Y. W. C. A. work in 
such competent hands. 

Immediately after Spring holidays 
the Georgia Cabinet Training Coun- 
cil will be held at Highland. At this 
time all the colleges of Georgia send 
their cabinet members to Highland 
for a week-end in which to think of 
the work for the coming year and to 
make certain plans for its carrying 
out. We sincerely hope all the mem- 
bers of the new cabinet will be able 
to attend. 

The first Sunday after Spring holi- 
days is Installation service for the 
new officers. This is always a beau- 
tiful and impressive service, and one 
which brings a tightening of the 
heartstrings to the seniors, for they 
are handing the light on to others, 
who will be soon doing the work 
which has meant so much to them. 
We hope this service may be as beau- 
tiful and impressive as those which 
have gone on before. 


ECONOMICS CLASS VISITS 
COTTON EXCHANGE 


The class in Economics, chaperoned 
by Miss Dayis, visited the Atlanta 
Cotton Exchange on Monday, March 
16th. They arrived just in time for 
its opening at 9:00 a. m. Many in- 
teresting features of the exchange 
were brought before their attention 
by Mr. Smithe, of the Exchange, who 
pointed out the apparatus over which 
wires can get to New York and back 
in one minute, and cables to Liverpool 
and back in three minutes. Mr. 
Smithe also explained to them some 
of the technical terms of the stock 
market, as “hedging.” Everyone en- 
joyed this visit very much as well as 
feeling greatly benefited by it. 


ECONOMICS CLASS SPONSORS 
MOVIE BY ALL SILK HOSIERY 
COMPANY 


A motion picture prepared by the 
All Silk Hosiery Company will be 
shown to the Agnes Scott students on 
Wednesday night, March 25. This 
picture deals with the manufacture 
of silks from the beginning of the 
cocoon in Japan through the various 
processes of maturing, harvesting, and 
manufacturing down to the actual 
making of the stocking. The picture 
will be conducted by the All Silk 
Hosiery agent from Atlanta and is 
brought to the college under the 
sponsorship of the economics depart- 
ment. 

This company has an agent at 
Agnes Scott, Clyde Passmore, who 
will be very glad to discuss the value 
of this hosiery with the students and 
take their orders. The hose are four 
pairs for five dollars guaranteed for 
a month’s constant wear and are con- 
stantly worn by the ladies of the 
country. 


Agnes Scott College 


DECATUR, GEORGIA 


Spacious and beautiful grounds, ele- 
gant buildings with modem conven- 


iences, full and able faculty. Courses 


leading to A. B. 


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GIDDLE' GOSSIP 


Thursday Night. 
Giddy dear: 

Well, elections are over and I was 
defeated. They sent me a note tho 
and asked that I run again next year. 
Must I? 

It was very exciting—not the note 
but elections—and ‘specially when 
they were fixing to announce some- 
body. 

I guess when you get this letter, 
Giddy, Mr. Stukes ‘ll just about be 
getting married. He’s 
professors down here and he’s going 
to get married next Thursday. And 
don’t think he didn’t give all his 
¢lasses a test for that very day. Why 
I don’t see how he could do it (get 
married) with a clear conscience— 
do you? 

Everybody’s so excited over it tho 


one of the 


that tonight instead of singing “One 
more week till vacation,” they sang 
“One more week till the wedding.” 
And let me 
funny — talking 
You know all the Seniors are getting 
real busy trying to get places to teach 


tell you something 


about professors. 


and all next year and so Frances 


Bitzer was writing to some supt. but 
she forgot his name so she just put 
“Dear Mr. —————” and was going 
to find out his name later. Well, she 
forgot about it and sent the letter 
off just that way. I wonder how the 
man will feel when he gets it. 

Giddy, I can’t wait till this time 
next week. Just think! I'll be pack- 
ing my suit case to go h-o-m-e! And 
Tl see you, too! I can’t think of a 
thing nicer. 

Lots of the girls can’t go tho’ and 
have to stay here. Still if you’re go- 


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eee Nm EN EE EA EU ES ee SN AER te ee ee aed ee ee ee, 


ing to camp like most of them it’s not 
half bad. We went out there last 
week-end—rather I went with some 
others and when we went to cook 
supper the stove just wouldn’t cook. 
The next day when we cleaned it out, 
guess what was the matter? Some- 
body had put floor oil in it instead of 
No wonder it was all stop- 
I don’t 


kerosene. 
ped up and wouldn’t work. 
blame it a bit. 

I lost five pounds last week just 
by taking 15 minute exercises every 
night. Marcia Green and Elsa Ja- 
cobsen and Blanche Berry are taking 
them too, but I don’t know whether 
they’ve gotten as good results as I 
And just to think that while 
we’re trying so hard to reduce Aram- 


have. 


inta Edwards is trying to g-a-i-n!! 
Yes sir! and last week guess what 
she did? She bought a bottle of 
ginger ale and a half a pint of pure 
cream and mixed them together and 
drank them—or it. And she’d eaten 
fish for supper. You can imagine 
what happened—and then on top of 
that she lost two or three pounds in- 
stead of gaining them, 

Did you know Dora Ferrell was 
going to get married next August? 
Well, she didn’t know it either till the 
lady at the Howard last week told her. 
How’d you feel to find it out real 
sudden like that, that you were go- 
ing to assume the responsibilities of 
matrimony. 

If I don’t get my beauty sleep now 
I may not be May Queen year after 
year after next. 

Yours till next week, 
AGGIE. 


MR. J. J. SCOTT MEMBER BOARD 
OF TRUSTEES 
(Centinued from Page 1, Column 1) 


he has been the president of the J. 
W. Scott Investment Co., Seott-Dale 
Cotton Mills, and the Georgia Duck 
and Cordage Mills. 

Mr. Scott takes special interest in 
taking good care of his employees. 
Under his direction, thousands of dol- 
lars are spent in improving their edu- 
eational, social and religious advant- 
ages. He, himself, teaches a Sunday 
School class of his employees in the 
Ingleside Presbyterian church. He 
is also an elder of the Decatur Pres- 
byterian church and is very active in 
all its spiritual work. 

Mr. Scott has the distinction of be- 
ing the only man on the board of 
trustees who is not married. He suc- 
ceeded his father as a member of the 
committee on building and grounds 
of the college. Mr. Scott shows his 
active interest by coming by the col- 
lege almost every week to see that 
things are going well. 


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A POEM 


I love to watch people’s hands, 

The agents of all this world’s toil 
and beauty. 

Baby hands, plump and fat. 

Hands, old dried, veined like a wilted 
flower. 

Soft white hands, manicured, per- 
fumed; 

Scarred hands, indicative of pain and 
manual labor. 

The artist’s hands, creating, bearing 
colors towards a finished sunset. 

The scrub-maid’s hands, drawn and 

thin from too much soaking in water 
and hard soap. 

Hands of the artiste, the violinist, 

Searching for his cutting melody. 

Mother’s hands, thin, caressing, ex- 
tended in benediction, folded 
in prayer. 
Flapper’s hands, lying in an- 
other’s, hot, flabby, feigning 
affection. 

Hands inviting, beseeching, 

Hands repelling, in anger, clinched 
with their emotion. 

Hands clutched on the auto’s wheel, 
guarding against death. 

Tiny fragrant pink tipped hands, lying 
lightly on the escort’s arm. 

Busy hands, capable hands, idle hands, 

Cruel hands, talon-like, clutching; 

Friendly hands, loving. 

I love to watch people’s hands, 

The agents of all this world’s toil 
and beauty. 


STUDENT ELECTION HELD FOR 


COMING YEAR 
(Centinued from Page 1, Column 1) 


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Assistant 


Business Manager — 


Eloise Gaines, 
Aurora. 


Editor—Grace Augusta Ogden. 

Assistant Editor—Roberta Winter. 
Business Manager—Sarah Shields. 
Assistant Business Manager—Miss 


Watson. 
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TRIANGULAR DEBATES DRAW 
LARGE CROWDS 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


the consistent policy of the United 
States, even from Colonial times, to 
oppose immigration and, in the latter 
years of her history, to restrict the 
influx of foreign peoples. The affir- 
mative based its argument on the two 
issues: that distinct advantages are 
made by the act along principles in 
line with the policy of the United 
States; that the act will definitely 
improve conditions in the United 
States. Catherine Graeber  estab- 
lished the first point by explaining 
in what manner the bill is both re- 
strictive and selective; and how it 
will, by virtue of these qualities, pre- 
serve the national life of the United 
States, solve the problem of immigra- 
tion, and save America for Ameri- 
Her colleague, Isabel Fergu- 
son, in support of the second issue, 
showed how the immigration act will 
improve the economic, social, and po- 
litical situation in America. 


cans. 


Charlotte Voss, first speaker for 
the negative, set forth the arguments 
on which the negative founded its 
proof, namely: That the immigration 
act favors the nothern part of Europe 
and discriminates unfairly against 
the that 
Japan has been unjustly treated be- 
eause of the cancellation of the Gen- 
tlemen’s Agreement; that the immi- 
gration bill conflicts with the basic 
principles upon which our nation is 
founded; that the bill cuts off the 
supply of unskilled labor needed by 
the industries of the United States. 
Charlotte Voss supported the first 
three arguments by showing that the 
bill was passed in a time of industrial 
depression for the purpose of catching 
the floating vote of the labor party in 
the presidential election; that it is 
conducive to racial, religious and na- 
tional hatred in the United States; 
that it fosters the enmity of Japan; 
that the immigrants who have come 
to America in past years have helped 
to bring prosperity to the nation. 
Ethel Bauer, her colleague, handled 
the economic side of the question and 
showed that immigration is not the 
cause of unemployment; that industry 
demands unskilled labor; that if the 
immigration act cuts off the supply 
of unskilled labor, the negroes will go 
to the north and, as a result, the 
south will not have laborers for the 
farms, that the trade unions have 
nothing to fear from immigration. 

The debating on both sides was 
clear cut and earnest. The arguments 


Mediterranean countries; 


were forcefully presented and gave 
evidence of keen, deep thinking, and 
a thorough knowledge of the question 
under discussion. The debate 
conducted in a clean, sportsman-like 
fashion, each side weighing its argu- 
ments against those of the other side. 
Spice was added to the argument by 
elever bits of humor and ingenuity, 
and the debaters of both teams were 
encouraged by lusty applause. 
Excitement reached highest 
pitch when the judges were asked to 
make their decisions, and the alter- 


was 


its 


nates went to get the fateful slips of 
paper. As Miss Daisy Francis, of 
the Agnes Scott faculty, who acted 
as chairman, opened the bits of pa~- 
per, containing the decision of the 
judges, the tension in the chapel was 
so great that the air fairly vibrated 
with the silence. She gave the de- 
cision, which was two to one in favor 


of Agnes Scott, and the audience, re- 
lieved of the rigid strain, applauded 
madly. 

A happy, hilarious crowd gathered 
in Main Hall to await the message 
Excitement 
was rampant, and the throng thrilled 
at every tinkle of the telephone bell. 


came that the decision had been unan-| 
imously in favor of Randolph-Macon. | 


Athletic News 


Every one is rejoicing over the fact 
that we reached the new gym quota 
last week, and memories of a glorious 
holiday still lurk in our minds. Of 
course the growth of the gymnasium 
is a thing of joy, and we have a feel- 
ing of pride as we look out of the 
class room windows to watch the 
men lay brick upon brick; but in spite 
of all this, a few of the athletes re- 
member track meet and long for the 
hockey field back again. 

It is quite bad that the athletic 
grounds had to be the site of the 
new building, but the mourners will 
cease to weep when they have a new 
gym and a new field both next year. 
Meanwhile the few track events that 
do not require great space will be 
practiced, and indoor base ball will be 
the “game of the season.” 

Camping, too, is as popular a sport 
Last week-end the Athletic 
Board went out to Pine Lodge. No 
real business meeting was held, but 
many odd and end things were accom- 
plished for the benefit of the cottage. 
The news, that will be most pleasing 
to those who have ever spent the 


as ever, 


night at camp, is that new springs 
have been placed on all the bunks. 
Now one may “rest in peace!” 

As to the dancing classes! Why 
they have all been turned into May 
Day groups. It won’t be long till the 
new ampitheatre will be the scene of 
Sherwood Forest. In truth there are 
so many exciting things happening 
that one forgets to moan the loss of 


Field Day. 


Later on it was learned that Ran- 
dolph-Macon had also vanquished 
Newcomb College in New Orleans. 

Naturally we were disappointed 
for the time being, for it is but hu- 
man to want the lion’s share. We 
feel sure, however, that our negative 
team fought boldly and bravely and 
conducted itself in a manner worthy 
of Agnes Scott. No sincere, earnest 
effort is ever futile or wasted, for the 
apparent failures of today are but 
stepping-stones to future success. As 
long as we are loyal and true to 
our Alma Mater, as long as we love 
her and cherish her, as long as we 
give her our best, so long will she 
be a beacon light among the colleges 
of the nation. ‘May her strength 
and her power ne’er decline!” 


The 
New 


Coats 


at 


Frohsin’s 


O be in Fashion the College 

Miss and her teacher must have 
a new Spring Coat—for the new 
spring coats ARE NEW —and 
assembled here you will find 
brilliant examples of the most re- 
cent fashion successes in wonderful 
selection.— Never before have fash- 
ions been so different—nor fabrics 
and materials so pretty. Furs are 
used in such unusual ways—prices 
are always moderate—at 


Fropgins 


Our latest song hit: “Crossword 


Papa, You’re Sure a Puzzle to Me.” 


The Late Date. 
He: “Love is blind.” 
She: “Well, can’t you tell where I 


am by feeling.” 


“There goes one of those grape- 
fruit girls.” 

“Why grapefruit?” 

“You squeeze her and she hits you 


in the eye.” 


Super: “Did yow go up the Nile 
this summer.” 
Dumb: “Yeah. Fine view from the 


” 


top 


Egotism is the anaesthetic nature 
gives to deaden the pain of being a 


fool. 


Nothing: 
the leg. 


A footless sock without 


“Say, why don’t 
King’s English?” 

“Aw, I know he’s English; don’t try 
to kid me.” 


you learn the 


Patriotism is taking your arm from 
around a girl’s waist to clap when the 


SENIOR CLASS PRESENTS 
“ILLUSION” 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


roles were played by stars. 

The Senior Class realized a profit 
of about fifty dollars on the play. 
Cast 

Gail Hart—a famous novelist, 
about thirty years old,............ 

Ruth Harrison 

Virginia LaForest—her cousin, 


about twenty-five years old 
Sxeeed Mary Ben Wright 

Miller—Virginia’s house-keeper 
and companion ....Louise Buchanan 

Miss Furman—a trained nurse 
Frances Tennent 


Act L. 

Scene—Living room of Virginia’s 
lodge in the Catskill Mountains of 
New York. 

Time—Middle of February. 

Act I. 


Scene—Same as Act I. 

Time—First of April. 

During Act II, the curtain will fall 
to denote the passage of several hours. 


Piggly Wiggly 


Agnes Scott girls are always 
welcome— 


| 
Wiggle thru and help yourself. | 
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT 


G. B. Spearman, Mer. 


Aggie’s Funny Bone 


THE 


United States calvary gallops across 
the scene. 


Yesterday, a freshman tried to get 
rough with a Co-ed. He would have 


been eighteen years old tomorrow. 


I 


heard a man say that he knew a 


Who says Darwin is wrong? 


girl who could make a monkey out 


of any man. 


“TI know a man so dumb he thinks 
South Bend is a new reducing exer- 
cise.” 

“That’s nothing; I know a man so 
dumb he thinks a cafe is a French 


restaurant. 


Figure This Out. 
For sale: “Gladly a Cross I’d Bear.” 
The animal Store, Ninth and Tenth 


streets. 


“My rubbers leak.” 
“Oh, never mind that—you have 


pumps inside of them.” 


Dr. Good: ‘Say in Shakespearean 


English, ‘Here comes a bowlegged 
man,’ ” 
E. Moore: “Behold! Oh, What is 


this I see approaching me in paren- 


theses.” 


ALUMNAE OFFER POETRY 
PRIZE FOR 1925 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


greatly stimulated the poets of the 


college community, and excellent 
tryouts are expected to be submitted 
to the judges. 

Margery Lowe, of Macon, Georgia, 
who graduated in 1923 and who was a 
visitor at the college during Mr. 
Heyward’s visit, won the prize last 


year. 


MR. BERGTHOLD TALKS ON 
STUDENT FRIENDSHIP FUND 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 


for greater achievements; spirit of 
daring and adventure, which does not) 
tolerate stagnation; and brotherhood, 
connecting link 
Is not the | 


which proves the 


and unifies the whole. 


student Friendship Fund, then, which | 
has for its purpose the helping of | 
students, a very 


these European 


worthy cause? 


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Glad to welcome old friends— 
Glad to make new ones. 


For prompt service 
Phone 
Dec. 0640 


BACK AGAIN! 


So that everybody will have a chance to 


see it. 
same big show as before. 


No Student of Agnes Scott College 
can afford to miss this play 


Buy Seats early if you want 
to be sure of getting them 


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AGONISTIC 


Student Life In Chile 


As the Chilean climate is rather 
temperate we do not wear raccoon 
we have no col- 


coats. Therefore, 


leges. However, we have students, 
who attend the secondary schools and 
the University. The liceo or second- 
ary school is a six year condensation 
of the American High School and Col- 
lege, with the virtues of these and 
none of their defects, but with a great 
The Uni- 


versity is the ensemble of professional 


many defects of its own. 


schools, the atheneum, the aula, the 
Six years seem enough to 
the acquire the 


learn humanities, 


habit of smoking and deserving a 
Bachelor's degree, if we bear in mind 
that the state (practically all of our 
education is furnished gratuitously by 
the state, that is, by ourseldves) does 
not bother to teach us the subleties of 
advertising nor the intricacies of 
horseback riding. 
Once a Bostonian lady proved to 
me the superiority of Protestantism 
by stating that in this country all 
presidents (including bank presi- 


dents) have been Protestants. I 
timidly remarked that in Rome all the 


cardinals and even the 


Catholics. 


ciate better the education we receive 


Pope are 
Since that day I appre- 


in Chile, the way we do things, the 


PROFESSOR BEBLIN LECTURES 
TO MATHEMATICS CLUB 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 4) 


jects, for beginners desire facts, and 
proof of the 
By 


a 


the rigorous, logical 
propositions are too difficult. 


making geometry consciously 


branch of physics, and by developing | 


it in close accordance with other sci- 
ences, it will become more vital and 
living to the average student. Pro- 
fessor Beblin hoped that future be- 


| ginners in geometry would be taught, 


not from the mathematical view point, 


|as he was, but from the physical. 


At the close of the the 
Club held an informal reception in the 


lecture, 


Physics Laboratory, at which all the 
visitors had an opportunity to meet 
Professor Beblin. 


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way we live, and die. Even our de- 
fects appear to me in a new light, az 
the inevitable shadows of our assets. 
The Bostonian lady made me realize 
that the only intelligent criticism is 
that which aims at understanding, 


particularly what seems absurd at 
first sight. 

So I will begin by pleading guilty. 
Yes, we have dormitories, no 
But, 


oh the warmth of the boarding house 


no 


chapel, no course in elocution. 


in San Diego Street, the inviting old 
face of the Church of Saint Francis, 
standing red and simple opposite the 
Flower Market! Of course in elocu- 
tion for us, we are too busy strug- 
gling to be articulate. Yes, I plead 
guilty. We have no banners, no pins. 
We have no college spirit. We are 
too busy working out the salvation of 
our souls. 

In Latin countries there are stud- 
ents and students. The variety known 
to the novelist are those who are not 
studying any longer. They frequent 
the libraries and auditoriums, and go 
Without them 


many books would not be read, many 


to the cafes at night. 


lecturers would address empty seats, 
and there would be no student night 
life. High priests of youth, these 
students who are not studying, never 


graduate, never settle down, never 


look down upon the younger genera- 


tion. Occasionally there arises from 


among them a good writer, an orig- 


inal artist, or a tribune of the peo- 
ple. In periods of conflict and malad- 
who do not 
study may even furnish the leader, 


the martyr, the hero. 


justment the students 


That is why, 
in a complete picture of Latin Amer- 
ican student life, special attention 
must be paid to this variety of stud- 
ents. Particularly so in connection 
with Chile, since one of them brought 
about a students’ consciousness, by 


finding expression to their disquiet- 


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ude, leading them into action, and 
dying in jail. 

in the Club de 
Estudiantes, a nice men’s club, where 


We used to meet 


someone was always playing the 
piano in the hall, glancing over Euro- 
pean reviews, reading proofs for the 
students’ monthly, treating a friend 
In the best room of 
the house one could see photographs 
of well-known people, friends of the- 


Club—Anna 


at the counter. 


Pavlowa, Maria Guer- 


rero, the Spanish actress, Anatole 
France, Manuel Ugarte. The latter, 
leading Argentine writer and an 


apostle of Latin Americanism as op- 
posed to Monroism, had spent many 
hours at the Club talking with the 
members—many of whom were his. 
fellow-writers—about the Great War, 
the Monroe Doctrine, the Latin Amer- 
the Sym- 
He 
had written at the foot of his picture: 


ican League of Nations, 


bolist Poets, the art of Picasso. 


‘La America Latina para los Latin- 
oamericanos.” 
him. 


Some disagreed with. 
“No”, they said, “Latin Amer- 
So the opinions. 
were divided. But everybody agreed 
upon one thing; namely, not to sub- 
scribe to the theory of some Ameri- 
can extremists, that Latin America 
should be for the Americans. 


ica for mankind.” 


But this unwillingness to be sub- 
servient to the great republic of the 
north was not an expression of na- 
tionalism, nor a mis-directed complex 
of national weakness. Those young 
mem were voicing the pride of their 
Spanish blood, and their personal in- 
adaptability to a civilization alien in 
its methods and ideals. 


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Vol. X 


AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1925 


No. 23 


Georgia Education Association 
Holds Convention 


Dr. McCain, Miss Hopkins 
and Mr. Rankin Attend 


The Georgia Education Association 
held a convention in Macon, April 15- 
18. The purpose of the convention 
was to discuss questions concerning 
the advancement of education in Geor- 
gia, especially in reference to high 


schools and grammar schools. Super-| 


intendents, teachers, educators, from 
all parts of the state were present, 
and the conference was most success- 
ful. Macon was more than crowded 
with delegates during last week, for, 
in addition, to the meeting of the 
Georgia Education Association, many 
kindred conventions were held at that 
time; conventions of the superintend- 
ents and county school officials of the 
Georgia Physical Education Associa- 
tion, of the Georgia Home Economics 
Association, of the mathematics, mod- 
ern language, English, public school 
art, public school music and commer- 
cial education departments, and of the 
Georgia branch of the National Con- 
gress of Parents and Teachers. 

From Agnes Scott, Dr. McCain, 
Miss Hopkins and Mr. Rankin at- 
tended, the two former being present 
at the convention of the Georgia Edu- 
cation Association, and the latter at 
the mathematics conference. Mr. Ran- 
kin wished to discuss especially “How 
the High School Can Better Serve the 
College Freshman in His Mathemat- 
ics.” He delivered an address, and 
was elected chairman of the depart- 
ment for next year. 

A main feature of the occasion for 
Dr. McCain, Miss Hopkins and Mr, 
Rankin was a dinner given by the 
alumnae of Agnes Scott at Hotel 
Dempsey, on Friday, April 17. About 
twenty-eight of our alumnae were 
present, among them Miss Thyrza As- 
kew, principal of North Avenue Pres- 
byterian School, toastmistress; Lillie 
(Little) Ryals, 97; Emma Wesley, 
799; Rusha Wesley, ’00; Meta Barker, 
702; Hilda McConnell, ’23; Christine 
Evans, ’23; Geraldine Goodroe, ’23; 
Eva Wassum, ’23; Sarah Kinman, 724, 
and Caroline Lavendon, ’18. 

Eva Wassum, ’23, was in charge of 
the dinner arrangements. She was 
also most thoughtful to Miss Hop- 
kins, Dr. McCain and Mr. Rankin, 
meeting Miss Hopkins and Mr. Ran- 
kin, who came late, at the station, 
entertaining all three at her home for 
lunch, and taking them again to the 
station when they were ready to 
leave. 

The Program 

Main sessions, Grand opera house. 

Thursday, April 16, 8:30 P. M. 

Theme: Home and Agricultural 
Resources. 

Invocation. 

Music—Miss Zillah Halstead, pro- 
fessor of piano, Wesleyan Conserva- 
tory of Music, Macon, Ga. 

Vocal Solos—Prof. Edgar Hower- 
ton, voice department, Wesleyan Con- 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


Students Elect Editor For 
Silhouette 


Nan Lingle to Edit Silhouette 
of 1926 


At a recent meeting of the student 
body, Nan Lingle was elected to take 
the place of Catherine Graeber, chos- 
en at student elections for next year’s 
editor of the Silhouette. As Pi Alpha 
Phi needed Catherine next year to 
heip uphold Agnes Scott against in- 
vading debaters, and as Catherine 
could not do this and edit the Silhou- 
ette at the same time, she decided in 
favor of Pi Alpha Phi, and resigned 
from her office as head of the Sil- 
houette staff. 

Nan Lingle was the committee nom- 
ination for the vacancy and also led 
the popular nominations. 

We are looking forward to an ex- 
cellent annual next year. 


Dr. C. I; Stuebel, of 
Germany, Lectures 


Present Condition of Germany 
is His Subject 


The International Relations Club 
was fortunate in having Dr. C. I. 
Stuebel, of Germany, to talk on “The 
Present Condition of Germany and 
The Result of The Reeent Elections.” 
Perhaps the most repeated question 
concerning Germany lately has been 
the inquiry whether Germany will re- 
main republican in form of govern- 
ment or will go back to the monarch- 
ial form. 

In order to make the situation 
clearer and more comprehensible, Dr. 
Stuebel first explained that something 
of Germany’s past history, aims and 
ambitions should be taken into ac- 
count. 

As compared with the United 
States, England and Russia, Germany 
was at a great disadvantage in not 
having any colonies from which to ob- 
tain raw materials, or to which she 
could send her surplus of population. 
She was, moreover, held there in a 
vice with England on the northwest, 
France on the west and Russia on the 
east; all three ready to check any 
move on Germany’s part to push out 
in any direction. Germany, he ad- 
mitted, entered the field for coloniza- 
tion too late; only a few little insigni- 
ficant territories were left. Therefore, 
how was she to solve the great prob- 
lem of her imperative need for col- 
onies. This, he felt, was a justifica- 
tion for Germany's part in the War 
of 1914, a i 

In alluding to the hemmed in sit- 
uation of Germany, again he justi- 
fied to his satisfaction, at least, the 
ruthless march across Belgium by 
saying that it was the path of least 
resistance. 

He further pointed out that Ger- 
many had great odds against her. 
Austria-Hungary, her ally, being too 
greatly disintegrated by her race 
question to give much aid, and Italy 
being unstable as well as weak. 

Dr. Stuebel did not tell very much 
about the present situation of Ger- 
many, but he did reveal much of the 
psychology of the Germans and Ger- 
many. 


Violin Class Gives 
Recital 


Assisted by Virginia Miller and 
Mary Ray Dobyns 


The Agnes Scott Violin Ensemble 
Class presented a most delightful pro- 
gram at its recital last Thursday 
evening in Propylean Hall. The per- 
formers, whose musical genius has 
long been one of our college prides, 
were at their best, and their violins, 
naturally the most beautiful of musi- 
cal instruments, were little short of 
divine. The program was as follows: 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
Department of Music 
STUDIO RECITAL 

By 

Miss Pocahontas Wight, Violinist 

Miss Sarah Currie, Violinist 

Miss Gladys Patz, Violinist 

Ensemble Class 
Assisted By 

Miss Virginia Miller, Soprano 

Miss Mary Ray Dobyns, Pianist 
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, at 8:30 P.M. 


PROGRAM 
a—Chorale: 
“IT got Me Flowers to Straw Thy 
way, 


I got me boughs off manya tree; 
But Thou wast up at break of day 
And brought’st Thy sweets along 


with Thee.” 
—Bach 
b—Chorale: 
“Hush, my dear, lie still and slum- 
ber, 


(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 


Grand Opera Week 
Attracts Throngs of 
Delighted Listeners 


April 20 issues in the long expec- 
ted and eagerly awaited week of op- 
era, when thousands flock to Atlanta 
to hear the world’s greatest singers. 
This is the Metropolitan Opera Com- 
pany’s fifteenth visit to Atlanta. This 
year five evening and two afternoon 
performances will be given, one more 
evening performance than before, a 
change which will add to the season’s 
social brilliance. 

The selection of operas for the 
season’s repertoire offers the greatest 
variety, including as it does estab- 
lished favorites by the most famous 
Italian, French and German compos- 
ers. A notably important feature of 
the festival will be the first appear- 
ance in Atlanta of the Metropolitan’s 
new conductor, Maestro Lullio Sera- 
fin, acknowledged to be the foremost 
of the young operatic and sympho- 
nic conductors of Italy. His advent to 
the company has had a most stimu- 
lating effect, winning for him the 
heartiest praise from the most ex- 
acting music critics of New York. 

The repertoire is as follows: 

Monday Evening, April 20 
Amileare Ponchielli’s Opera 
LA GIACONDA 
(In Italian) 

La Giaconda Rosa Ponselle 
Laura Adorno 
Alvise Bodoero .. .. Jose Mardones 
La Ceica Marian Lelva 
Anzo Guimaldo....Giacomo Lauri Volpi 
Burnaha Guiseppe Danise 
Zuane, a singer Vincenzo Reschiglian 
Isepo Giordano Poltrinieri 
A Monk Louise d’Angelo 

This opera is richly picturesque in 
its Venetian atmosphere. An all star 
cast, including the popular American 
prima denna, Rost Ponselle, will make 
the occasion exceptionally brilliant. 
It will introduce a young Italian tenor, 
Giacomo Lauri Volpi, new to Atlanta, 
who has made a name in New York 
after winning his spurs in the leading 
theatres in Italy and South America. 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Dr. E. V. McCollum 
Speaks at Chapel 


Importance of Diet in Preserva- 
tion of Health, His Subject 


Agnes Scott again had the pleasure 
of hearing Dr. E. V. McCollum, noted 
physiological chemist, during the 


chapel hour, on Tuesday, April 14. | 
Dr. McCollum continued the instruc-| 


tive talk on nutrition which he had so 
ably handled the previous evening. 

Dr. McCollum stated that he would 
give some lessons for daily life, be- 
cause “physical health is the basis of 
so many worth while things in life, 
that, while it is, perhaps, not the 
greatest thing in life, it is of primary 
importance.” And at the basis of ex- 
cellent health, is correct dieting, or 
nutrition. 

Dr. McCollum made several obser- 
vations. He stated that girls, as a 
whole, in Chicago are very small, that 
people’s jaws are underdeveloped teeth 
in decayed state very early, and that 
few people are in really good health. 
Practically all people from fifty years 
of age on, have porous, brittle bones, 
because of a diet of fine flour, meat 
and sugar. 

A child’s teeth begin to enamel at 
the sixtieth day of pre natal life. This 
enameling begins in tiny spots, which 
steadily grow, eventually meeting. If 
this process is hindered by lack of 
proper substance for its development, 
the teeth are never perfect, and are 
readily subject to decay. Where, as 
modern dentistry allows us to be- 
lieved that our teeth are repaired, the 
world at large is not benefitted, for 
the succeeding generation will be just 
as bad off, and probably even worse. 
The ideal which should be before each 
one, is the production of a generation 
better than the present. Repairing our 
teeth does not aid in this high aim. 
And too, the problem of good teeth is 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) 


Hoasc Spends Week-End 
At Camp ~~ 


Pi Alpha Phi Elects New 
Officers 


Four New Members Admitted 
To The Club 


At a meeting last Thursday eve- 
ning, Pi Alpha, Phi elected its offi- 
cers for ne year. The girls 
chosen are young ladies of unusual 
talent, and promise to lead the club 
most successfully in the year 1925-26. 
They are as follows: President, Cath- 
erine Graeber; Vice-President, Elsa 
Jacobson; Secretary, Evelyn Powell; 
Treasurer, Mary _Davis. Members 
Debating Council: Olivia Swann, El- 
oise Harris. 


Tryouts for membership in Pi Al- 
pha Phi were held in the chapel Wed- 
nesday evening, April 15, at which 
time Janet McDonald, Carolyn Essig, 
Edith Richards, 
were 


and Mary Riviere 
elected as new members. 
Twenty-three aspirants made short 
speeches with much earnestness on 
such subjects as Resolved: That Af- 
ternoon Classes Should Be Abolished; 
That Gymnasium Work Should be Dis- 
continued after Spring Holidays; That 
College Examitiations Should Be Abol- 
ished; etc, The four girls therefore, 
who were successful among so many 
competitors are to be congratulated 
for gaining admission into Agnes 
Scott’s debating club. 

At the meeting of the club Thurs- 
day night the four “girls were initia- 
ted. 

This year, for the first time, Pi 
Alpha Phi has required of its incom- 
ing members real initiations of the 
horrible type connoted by the word, 
initiation. 

Can you imagine Carolyn as a starv- 
ing Armenian, Janet an interpretive 
dancer, Edith a chorus girl, and Mary 
an Eskimo? Well, they were, Thurs- 
day night. 


Juniors Give Mum 
Party 
Juniors Give Clever Stunts 


“A cent for every word you speak 
A cent for every laugh and sneeze 
The Juniors need your money 

So just giggle all you please 

Wednesday night at supper. 

Juniors will change money at the 
door.” 

This notice together with attractive 
posters announced the fatal night 
when the Juniors collected fabulous 
sums from over-talkative and super- 
cilious Seniors, Sophomores and 
Freshmen. 

In the center of each table was 
placed a little bowl to catch the pen- 
nies of the unsuspecting girls who 
could not eat without asking for some 
supper, which was placed on a side 
table, and each at the expense of the 
others would laugh and soon the little 
pennies jingled into the bowls. 

During the entertaining meal, (for 
the Juniors alone) a stunt was per- 
formed by .Helena Hermance and 
Edyth Carpenter, who were dressed 
as outrageously as was permissible, 
and aided in the good cause by their 
ridiculous actions. 

A similar party was given two 
years ago, but it was not a bit more 
successful. Despite the fact that 
there have been many expenses for 
the members of all the classes of late, 
everyone was cooperative in her 
efforts to make the “Mum Party” a 
success with her “magnanimous con- 
tributions” in pennies. 


Last week-end found the new camp 
the “official headquarters” of Hoasc, 
as it sought to escape the demands of 
college life and revel in the quietude 
of the great out-of-doors for a time. 
However, all was not calm within the 
party! This trip offered a splendid 
opportunity for the initiation of the 
two new members, 
Wight and Eugenia Thompson had to 
suffer the consequences. Nevertheless, 
they came back to classes Mon- 
day morning none the worse for 
wear, and they looked almost 
as happy as freshmen who have 
just paid a dollar each for their seats 
in this honorary society. 

The group went out Saturday af- 
ternoon and returned Monday morn- 
ing. Dick Seandrett and Polly Stone, 
Hoase members of the class of ’24, 
acted as chaperones. 

The present members of Hoasc are: 
Louise Buchanan, president; Emily 
Spivey, Margaret Hyatt, Ellen Wal-_ 
ker, Mary Anne McKinney, Isabel 
Ferguson, Marjorie Speake, Elizabeth 
Cheatham, Mary Keesler, Dorothy 
Keith, Martha Lin Manly, Frances 
Lincoln, Eugenia Thompson, and Po- 
cahontas Wight. 


Pi Alpha Phi Awards 
Two Cups 


Harris and Ferguson Winners 


Loving cups! Ware xcheomenv they ae 


cause in the minds of us all! What 
moments of anxious expectation and 
delighted realization! Last week Pi 
Alpha Phi was responsible for two of 
these moments when they presented 
the Armistead and Quenelle Harrold 
cups to two fortunate girls. 

Wednesday morning Miss Gooch 
awarded the Armistead cup to Eloise 
Harris, who was an alternate on this 
year’s negative team which met Ran- 
dolp-Macon in the intercollegiate de- 
bate. The cup, which has been pre- 
sented by an unknown donor through 
the instrumentality of Miss Nell 
Buchanan, the secretary of the Alum- 
nae Association, is a memorial to Dr. 
J. D. M. Armistead, who organized the 
society and was during his life time 
its moving and inspiring force. It is 
a slender silver chalice on which is 
engraved, “Armistead, 1871-1923. ‘As 
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he’.” 
Its donor stipulates that it shall be 
given to the debater who has the 
most pleasing delivery, who uses the 
best English, and who shows the most 
consideration for the viewpoint of her 
opponents. Miss Gooch stated that 
although the committee felt that sev- 
eral of the girls possessed one of 
these traits developed to a great de- 
gree, Eloise possessed all three to the 
greatest extent, Every student who 
had ever heard Eloise debate and had 
felt the charm of her personality, con- 
curred heartily with the decision of 
the committee. 

On Friday, amid keenest excitement 
on the part of the audience, Miss 
Hearon presented the Quenelle Har- 
rold cup for the best debater to Isa~ 
bel Ferguson. Quenelle Harrold was 
president of Pi Alpha Phi in 1923 and 
gave to it this cup, the winning of 
which is considered the greatest hon- 
or in the society. It is awarded to 
the debater who has the best stage 
presence and voice, who works faith- 
fully and helpfully in the club, and 
who presents the best arguments in 
her debates. Isabel Ferguson re- 
ceived the cup in recognition of her 
service as alternate on last year’s af- 
firmative team, and as final speaker 
against Newcomb on this year’s team. 
In receiving it, she receives also the 
most sincere congratulations of the 
fellow students. 


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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


Lillian Middlebrooks, ’25 
Julia Pope, ’25 

Emily Ehrlich, ’27 
Janet McDonald, ’28 
Nellie Richardson, ’26 
Emily Kingsberry, ’28 Emily Jones, ’26 
Margaret Tufts, ’26 Martha Turner, ’28 


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HOW THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION KEEPS ITS MEMBERS 
IN TOUCH WITH THE COLLEGE 


Of all the organizations which have for a purpose the pro- 
motion. of our Alma Mater’s interests, there is ee co ace so 
enthusiastic, so unselfishly devoted, as the Alumnae Association. 
What its members have done, we have not always known, for they 
have worked quietly and without show; but the fruits of their 
toil we have all enjoyed. To glance at the extensive program which 
our Alumnae carry on for the glory of Agnes Scott would not only 
make us proud of the product of our college, but would inspire in 
us a double desire to become some day ourselves members of that 
cherished association. 

But first, a word concerning the history of the or. anization, 
It was in 1895 that a small group of eee rownk woes met in 
the parlor of the main building to discuss the formation of an 
Alumnae Association. They called in Mrs. McKinney, and togeth- 
er they set forth an ideal which has grown into a thing of in- 
credible bigness. Then, there was only a handful of members, no 
money and little to do. Now, thirty years later, there is a vast 
and enterprising association of seven hundred paid members with 
a budget of several thousand dollars a year; departments covering 
every phase of work that can be done for the college; a part-time 
general secretary, and a home on the campus. Under the lead of 
Mrs. D. B. Donaldson, the organization promises to make as rapid 
progress in the future as it has in the past. 

Its work is carried on mainly through the medium of twelve 
committees, as follows: Publicity, chairman, Louise Johnson, ’20; 
preparatory schools, chairman, Julia Hagood Cuthbertson, ’20; 
curriculum, chairman, Jane Harwell Rutland, ’17; house and tea 
room, chairman, Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott, ’15; Louise McKinney 
play contest, chairman, Mary Wallace Kirk, ’11; local clubs, chair- 
man, Aimie D. (Glover) Little, ’21; vocational guidance, chair- 
man, Ruth Scandrett, ’22; on beautifying grounds and buildings, 
chairman, Allie (Candler) Guy, '13; entertainment, chairman, 
Eugenia (Johnston) Griffin, '21; scholarship, chairman, Ethel 
(Alexander) Gaines, ’00; class organization and records, chair- 
man, Ruth (Slack) Smith, ’12; Alumnae Aid League, treasurer, 
Belle Cooper, ’18. 

Doubtless the work of the Alumnae Association best known 
to the students is that carried on in connection with the tea room 
and the alumnae house. In 1915, an alumna made an impassioned 
plea to the organization of an alumnae cottage. In 1921, the Anna 
Young Alumnae house was erected, and, with it, a tea room, for 
the accommodation of students and visitors. Previous to this time, 
the Y. W.C. A. of the college had managed a tea room in the base- 
ment of the science building, but finding that students did not 
have enough time’to give to it, had appealed to the Alumnae, Dr. 
Gaines suggested the building of an Alumnae house, with a tea 
room, and accordingly, the building was erected by the trustees 
and alumnae. It ismeedless to suggest the advantage coming from 
the Alumnae house, how it drives away the ‘blues’ with walnut 
ice cream, or furnishes dainty suppers of salad and sandwiches, 
and how it harbors visiting alumnae and college guests. 

The committee on beautifying grounds and buildings has been 
the inspiration for furnishing the parlors, and for setting out 
shrubbery, and has itself given three tropical plants for ornament, 
two for the chapel and one for the parlor. 

The Alumnae offers an annual award of two hundred and 
fifty dollars for the best play submitted by a student or alumna. 
This year, however, the award will not be given, as three plays 
were not submitted, and it is a rule of the contest that at least that 
number must be turned in for the prize to be awarded. A poetry 
prize also is offered to alumnae and undergraduates. This, amount- 
ing to fifty dollars, will be awarded at commencement. 

Alumnae of the college, citizens of Tallapoosa, Ga., and other 
friends have established the Mary D. Sheppard Memorial scholar- 
ship of $2,000, in honor of Miss Mary Sheppard, who was a teach- 
er at Agnes Scott, and later a resident of Tallapoosa. The Alum- 
nae have also established the Alumnae loan fund, the interest for 
which is to be used for those who find it necessary to borrow 
money for the completion of their college work. 


BETTE OOS ooo goa nav seseat sane cei eae ee 
Elizabeth Henderson 


Eugenia Thompson, ’25 
Edith Richards, ’27 
Clyde Passmore, ’25 
Miriam Preston, ’27 
Carolyn Essig, ’28 


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The Curriculum Committee investigates the courses offered 
in the best colleges of our country, and sees to it that, when pos- 
sible, Agnes Scott presents like courses. Recently the committee 
has perfected a plan called the College After College, whereby the 
Alumnae, beginning next October, will have the opportunity of 
taking five or six correspondence courses, for the nominal sum of 
one dollar a course. Miss Alexander is in charge of the courses. 

A great achievement of the past year has been the formation 
of new local clubs, at Richmond, Charlotte, New York, Lynchburg, 
Anniston, Ala., and Birmingham. These clubs became centers of 
Agnes Scott influence, and of course are helpful in a financial way. 
The New York branch, for example, \has pledged five hundred 
dollars towards the establishing of a chair of playwriting here. A 
further account of the activities of the local clubs may be found 
under the heading, “Alumnae News,” in this issue of the Agonistic. 

The Alumnae Quarterly, edited by Louise Johnson, ’20, and 
Nell Buchanan, ’22, keeps the Alumnae “in touch with the current 
activities of the association, and the college, and with the inter- 
ests of one another.” The April issue is especially interesting, and 
would well repay perusal on the part of the students. —s 

At the end of each year the outgoing senior class is invited to 
join the Alumnae Association, and thus the organization is for- 
ever perpetuated and forever growing. The Monday of Commence- 
ment week is called Alumnae Day, and at that time Agnes Scott’s 
daughters come back to the “sheltering arms” from far and wide. 
The reunion this year promises to he much larger than ever be- 


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fore. 


For the great work it is doing for us and for our college, the 
Alumnae Association merits our deepest admiration. Indeed, we 
may say with Dr. McCain that the Alumnae are “our chief joy 


and pride.” 


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MRS, MOTTE MARTIN TALKS IN 
CHAPEL 


Agnes Scott was delighted to have 
a visit from Mrs. Motte Martin, mis- 
sionary to Africa, who spoke in chap- 
el Friday morning. The subject of 
her address was the Foreign Missions 
Conference recently held in Washing- 
ton, when eight thousand people were 
and addresses 
given. The theme of the convention 
was the greater world war, against 
not “flesh and blood,” but “principali- 
ties and power.” A cry for help was 
sounded for the heathen world, for 
the Orient in general, where greedy 
traders misrepresent Christianity, and 


present, sixty-five 


where native religions are most de- 
generate, for China, where seventy 
million women still have bound feet, 
and two thousand farmers were re- 
cently killed on account of their 
stand against opium; for Korea, the 
Holy Land of the East; for Japan; 
Turkey, Egypt and for Africa, where 
fifty millions have not yet heard the 
name of Jesus. Here Mrs. Martin 
stopped her talk to exhibit curios 
from Africa, the hideous mask of a 
witch doctor; an idol, a snake twelve 
feet long, in which the natives 
thought a god resided, and a piece of 
palm fibre cloth, of the variety which 
is buried with the dead. 

“A certain Chinese student at Chi- 
cago University,” Mrs. Martin con- 
tinued, “was found collecting news- 
paper clippings which show the lack 
of right conditions in America.” It 
is here, then, that we must begin the 
fight against internal conditions. 

Eighty per cent of the students at 
the same university expressed no in- 
terest in religion whatsoever. So the 
conference asked prayers for the 
youth of our land. “How are we to 
fight? Jesus promised to be with us.” 

The message of Rome, of Greece, 
of Mohammed, and of Jesus were giv- 
en. They are: Rome, Control Thy- 
self; Greece, Know Thyself; Moham- 
med, Submit Thyself; Christ, Give 
Thyself. 

Mrs. Martin announced that she was 
leaving in our library a book on Afri- 
ca, in which she would also have re- 
corded the progress of Bukumba Bible 
School, and the address of the place 
from which African cloth may be ob- 
tained. 


TEA IN HONOR OF MRS. STUKES 


Miss Gaylord and Miss Annis gave 
a tea in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Stukes 
at the Alumnae House Tuesday, April 
14. The parlor and dining room were 
attractively decorated with dogwood 
and azaleas. Never has the Alumnae 
House looked more attractive or held 
a more successful function. Sand- 
wiches, tea, coffee, nuts and mints 
were served from the table, in the 
center of which was a basket of beau- 
tiful roses. Misses Janey Preston and 
Dick Seandrett poured tea. 

All the faculty attended in best 
bib and tucker. Polly Stone and Dick 
Scandrett were also present. All 
agree in judging the tea most at- 
tractive and delightful. 


ATLANTA BRANCH OF A. A. U. W. 
ENTERTAINS SENIORS AT TEA 


We all know to what a young man’s 
fancy turns in the spring; but a 
maiden’s fancy, especially if that 
maiden be a senior at Agnes Scott, 
turns to thoughts of graduation and 
the round of parties incident thereto, 
The Agnes Scott alumnae started the 
ball rolling when they entertained the 
senior class with a Valentine tea. The 
second party on the program was the 
tea tendered the seniors by the faculty 
members of the A. A. U. W., which is 
the short of American Association of 
University Women. 

It has been the custom for the local 
branch of Atlanta to meet at the col- 
lege in the spring, and for the faculty 
members to entertain the seniors later. 
But this year it was decided to com- 
bine the annual meeting at Agnes 
Scott with the entertainment for the 
seniors, so that the A. A. U. W. mem- 
bers and the “graduates elect” could 
become acquainted with one another. 

About fifty of the Atlanta members 
were present, besides the sixteen Ag- 
nes Scott members and the guests of 
honor. A very delightful program 
was presented by the Glee Club and 
Poetry. Club, followed by a speech of 
welcome to the seniors by Mrs. Peace, 
a Vassar graduate, who is president of 
the Atlanta branch. In the course of 
this welcoming address, Mrs. Peace 
outlined the organization, purpose, 
and activities of the Association, and 
invited the seniors to become mem- 
bers. At the culmination of the pro- 
gram, delicious refreshments were 
served, and a pleasant social hour 
was enjoyed. 

The program, each number of 
which was graciously presented by 
Miss Laney, follows. Miss Bland was 
unable to be present on account of 
sickness and her poems were ably 
read by Miss Preston. 

Readings of original poems by mem- 
bers of the Poetry Club: 

Susan, Clayton, Grace Augusta Og- 
den, Ellen Walker, Elizabeth Cheat- 
ham, Miss Bland, Miss Preston. 

“Sylvia,” and “Mah Lindy Lou” by 
the Glee Club, followed by an encore 
by the special chorus. 


Intercollegiate 


News 


At Sophie Newcomb a test was re- 
cently given to determine the char- 
acter of the Newcomb girls. All stu- 
dents took the examination but entire 
secrecy was kept concerning the an- 
swers received. There were ten ques- 
tions rating ten points each, and any 
girl who could answer “No” to all of 
them would get 100, meaning that 
she was 100 per cent pure. The 
questions are: Have you ever 
smoked? Have you ever taken a 
drink? Have you ever kissed a boy? 
Have you ever voluntarily told a lie? 
Have you 
ever been on a necking party? Have 
you ever dressed immodestly? Have 
you ever danced immodestly? Have 
you ever done anything you couldn’t 
tell your mother? Have you ever 
vamped a boy away 
girl? 


from another 


On Riverside Drive, New York, near 
Columbia University, stands the Inter- 
national House, where 1,200 students 
from 69 countries live. Of those stu- 
dents, 525 represent 54 countries. Liv- 
ing under one roof these students 
from all over the world participate in 
the most real sort of education. 

While some of the Japanese stu- 
dents, embittered and disheartened by 
the United States Exclusion Law 
withdrew from the house, others are 
turning the other cheek by staging 
three Japanese plays. With the pro- 
ceeds of these plays they hope to es- 
tablish a scholarship for an American 
student in a Japanese University. This 
effort is called the “Brotherhood 
Scholarship Fund Movement,” and it 
is hoped that $1500 will be raised to 
send an American student to Japan 
for one year. 


FRENCH ROOM RECEIVES 
ARTISTIC TOUCHES 


Our cozy little French room in the 
library has lately been decorated. 
The French aspect of this corner of 
the library has been doubled by the 
contribution of three characteristical- 
ly French pictures. The smaller of 
the three is “La Soirele D’Hyver,” a 
delightful study in soft lue and red 
coloring. The “Bal du May donnee a 
Versailles pendant Le Carnival de 
Annee 1763” is the most charmingly 
French of all, for in it we see the gor- 
geous splendor of the palace combined 
with the elaborate costumes of the 
time. The “Chateau de Chambor” 
shows the chateau in all its grandeur 
and beauty of line as it stands out 
against a clear sky above. 

These lovely pictures were secured 
by Miss Alexander from Vicomte 
Rene de Montozon-Brachet, a young 
writer on whom fame has smiled since 
his first book and who has been cited 
by many of the noble critics of Eu- 
rope. Through the instrumentality of 
Miss Alexander and the Lecture As- 
sociation, it is hoped that Agnes 
Scott may someday have the pleasure 
of hearing Rene de Montozon-Brachet. 


BASEBALL SEASON OPENS 


The baseball season opened last 
Friday afternoon on the much cur- 
tailed athletic field, when the fresh- 
men beat the juniors with a score of 
about 8 to 7. This Friday, the seniors 
and sophomores will play, and the 
winner will meet the freshman class 
for the championship game on the 
following Friday. 


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GIDDIE GOsaIP 


Thursday. 

Well, Giddy, where’s your letter for 
this week? You must do better in the 
correspondence at your end of the 
line—do you hear? Why I haven't 
had a real letter from you since 
Spring Holidays. 

I’m going to do the same to you 
now, as I have only fifteen minutes 
to write and I won’t do it a bit 
longer either. 

You don’t like dogs, do you? Well 
it’s certainly a good thing you were 
not here last night because Sine Cald- 
well bought a very little, cute dog 
yesterday, and he got to yelling so 
she put him in the waste basket and 
set it out in the hall. Of course the 
poor little thing was cold and hun- 
gry and miserable and afraid so he 
howled—as much as he could for his 
age, and that was a lot — and 
growled and growled and howled till 
nearly everybody on the hall was 
awake. He sounded just like bad 
static over a radio. Sine’s going to 
send him home today—it surely is 
a good thing, too. 

Guess what I saw out of the win- 
dow just now? You know Cephise 


hise came down and brought a broom 
and started beating and beating it 
—but it was up too high. Well she 
jumped and jumped and hit and hit 
till she finally got it down. Poor 
thing she looked so to speak “whip- 
ped down.” Last night when I went 
to my room there was a beautiful 
bouquet of dead Easter flowers and 
Carrie Graham had some too. Blanch 
Berry and Jo Bridgman found a week 
old bottle of milk in their room. No- 
body knew who to attribute such ac- 
tions to but Sine and Theta and sure 
enough we hit the nail on the head. 

The Juniors had a Mum party the 
other night at supper. Have you ever 
heard of one? Well you can’t say a 
word, laugh, grin, cough, sneeze or 
hardly move at supper unless you 
pay a penny for each one. The whole 
dining room was silent except for 
the rattling of pennies in the dishes 
in the middle of the table. I guess 
the faculty hadn’t gotten any checks 
then for only about five of them came 
to supper. 

Helena Hermance and Edyth Car- 
penter gave a real funny stunt and of 
course more pennies rattled in the 


Cartwright, don’t you? Well, she 
was cleaning up I guess and hung 
the rug in the window. The wind 


eame along and blew it out and it| 


hung on the light Wire outside. Cep- 

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DAISY FRANCES SMITH GIVES 
TEA 


A charming tea was given on Fri- 
day afternoon by Miss Daisy Frances 
Smith at her home on North White- 
foord avenue. A large number of the 
Agnes Scott faculty and students were 
invited to be present on this occasion. 
The learned mingled with the unen- 
lightened from three o’clock till five, 
for the April shower which came out 
of a clear sky—as April showers do 
—could not daunt the spirits of those 
who heed the call of knowledge and 
of sociability. 

The home was lovely with dogwood 
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ness caused by the spring raindrops 
was dispelled by the cheerful glow of 
an open fire. Miss Smith was assisted 
in entertaining her guests by Mrs. 
Smith and her cousin, Mrs. Green. 
Punch and mints were served through- 
out the afternoon. 

The guests had a delightful time 
chatting together and looking at a 
number of curios which had been col- 
lected from various places. Delicious 
pound cake and Neopolitan cream ad- 
ded zest to the enjoyment of all, 
though the flow of conversation was 
notably decreased during the period 
of consumption. 

The guests lingered about the rooms 


of the alluring home and seemed 
loathe to realize that the moments 
were fleeing back to old Father Time. 
At last, like one who for delay seeks 
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best of all, the remembrance of a 
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Alumnae News 


ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL 
ALUMNAE CLUBS 


Do all of us realize just what our 
Alumnae Association is doing for 


Agnes Scott? Our alumnae, more 


than any other source, are responsi- 
ble for Agnes Scott’s National repu- 
tation. This work has been carried 
on mainly through the organization 
of local clubs. We have given below 
brief accounts of some of the most 
active clubs. 
The Atlanta Club 
This year the Atlanta club has giv- 
en $500 to the Alumnae Association. 
Plans are being made for the Atlanta 
Children’s Carnival, which is a big 
event every spring. May Day dan- 
cers will also take part in the car- 
nival. The officers of the club are: 
President, Clara Louise Scott; Vice- 
President, Carol Stearns Wey (Mrs. 
Harold); Secretary, Marie S. Hoppe 
(Mrs. Louis); Treasurer, Lois McIn- 
tyre Beall (Mrs. Frank). 
The Decatur Club 
The Decatur club has given over 
$100 to the Alumnae Association this 
year and has pledged $200 for next 
year. “Quality Street,” will be given 
by the club May 16. The officers are: 
President, Daisy Francis Smith; Vice- 
President, Georgianna White Miller 
(Mrs. Walter); Secretary, Frances 
Amis. 
New York Club 
We have 40 alumnae in and around 
New York. The club was organized 
March 26, and their first regular meet- 
ing was held at the Peg Woofington 
Hotel. Elizabeth Wilson, "22, was 
elected president. The club has al- 
ready pledged $100 toward the es- 
tablishing of a chair of playwrighting 
at Agnes Scott. This promises to be 
one of the most active clubs. 
Richmond Club 
Our Richmond alumnae have been 
unusually active in getting Richmond 
students for Agnes Scott. They are 
planning to have a big part in Col- 
lege Day .of John Marshall High 
School. The officers are: President, 
Beth McClure; Secretary, Hattie 
Blackford Williams (Mrs. P. J.); 
Chairman Publicity, Kate Richardson 
Wicker (Mrs. J. J.). 
Charlotte Club 
This club was organized only this 
year, but its members have already 
made plans for a big benefit party 
May 18th, the proceeds to go to the 
Alumnae House. The club will have 
an important part in College Day for 
high school students. Stunts have 
been planned. The officers are: 
President, Lulie Campbell Ivy (Mrs. 
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ter the birth of a new nation upon the| the reader will see further on, when 
remains of the ancient Aztec capital,| its latest activities will be described. 


the first attempts were made toward 


Students begin their university life 


the establishment of the University| generally at the age of thirteen or 
of Mexico in what now is the city of| fourteen, as they come out of the ele- 
Mexico; but this was not accomplished| mentary school. By that time they are 
until 1553, under the good rule of| supposed to have made up their mind 


Viceroy Don Luis de Velasco. 
with the name of Royal and Pontifical 
University of St. Paul, the first insti- 
tution of its kind came into being on 
this continent. In accordance with the 
religious spirit of the times, the chief 
branch of study in it was Theology, 
but time was allowed to the study of 
science, law, and the aboriginal lan- 
guages. Notwithstanding these ear- 
ly beginnings, the University of Mex- 
ico was destined to follow the same 
sort of precarious existence as that of 
the people for whom it was estab- 
lished. And consequently, it flour- 
ished and progressed under wise and 
strong government, or it declined and 
even disappeared under less favorable 
regimes. It was an added blunder of 
the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian 
to have closed it in 1865, 

Not until the latter part of the Diaz 
administration in 1910, was the Uni- 
versity reopened again, and _ this 
through the efforts of the scholarly 
man and patriot, Don Justo Sierra, 
then Minister of Education. He suc- 
ceeded in reorganizing it on a very 
firm basis and in this he was securing 
also a foundation for the first national 
movement for education which has 
been taking place during the last five 
years, It was through the University 
that this movement was stated, the 
purpose of which has been to extend 
privileges of education to all classes 
of people, even at the expense and 
limitation of the University itself. 

There has been in Mexico, since the 
Spanish conquest and colonization, in- 
stitutions of higher learning, such as 
those for the study of medicine, law 
and theology, chiefly supported and di- 
rected by the Catholic clergy; but life 
in them was very exclusive and rigid, 
being devoted entirely to religion and 
scholasticism. This type of education 
that lasted for a period of more than 
three and a half centuries, was bound 
to project its mutilating shadow up to 
the present day. So it is how one finds 
that in the University schools or fac- 
ulties, there is hardly any other kind 
of activity than the intellectual one— 
with the exception of such interesting 
classes and studies as a person might 
find, life is deadly within their walls. 
The very buildings in which some of 
these faculties are located tend to con- 
tribute to the atmosphere of rigidity 
and formality. These venerable and 
artistically beautiful structures once 
served to shelter religious orders and 
churches, in fact, they were built for 
those purposes. The School of Medi- 
cine is at present located in what at 
one time was the headquarters of the 
Holy Inquisition. 

Perhaps the previous description will 
have caused the reader to believe that 
the prevailing atmosphere throughout 
the University faculties is one of med- 
jaevalism. Nothing could be more un- 
just to the efforts of some distin- 
guished educators and to the striving 
student life outside. In spite of bur- 
densome tradition and tumultuous 
years, there has been going on a very 


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under the direction of Elizabeth Ran- 
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White Archibald, ’17. Miss McKinney 
will also help. 

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This club is being organized by 
Virginia Ordway, ’24, and Fan Me- 
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And} as to whether or not they will follow 


one of the learned professions. If so, 
the University will open to them the 
Preparaotry school, whose program 
covers a period of five years of hard 
and, for the most part, abstract study, 
so that by the end of this course the 
student will have acquired a certain 
degree of erudition, and will be able 
to express himself with more or less 
intelligence on any literary or scien- 
tific matter. At this time he is ready 
to go to the specialized ,school of his 
choice, whether it be medicin, law, or 
engineering, which are the professions 
most generally followed, and in any 
one of them he will have to spend 
from five to seven years more. 


GEORGIA EDUCATION ASSOCIA- 
TION HOLDS CONVENTION 
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servatory of Music. Prof. Maerz at 

the piano. 

Address of Welecome——Hon. J. E. 
Hall, Bibb County Board of Education. 

Response—President Willis A. Sut- 
ton. 

Greetings—Mrs. Fred Wessels, Jr., 
president Georgia Branch Parent- 
Teacher Association. 

Greetings—Mrs. A. P. Brantley, 
president Georgia Federation of Wom- 
en’s Clubs. 

Address—“The Specific Contribu- 
tion of the Home to Life in Georgia” 
—Dr. Louise Stanley, Washington, 
D. C. 

Address—Dr. Andrew M. Soule, 
President State College of Agricul- 
ture. 

Official Orchestra, Boys’ 
School orchestra, Atlanta. 

Friday, 9:30 A. M—Grand Opera 

House 

Theme: “Good Roads and Better 

Schools.” 


High 


Invocation. 

Address—Good Roads—Hon. W. T. 
Anderson, State Highway Board. 

Address — Vocational Education— 
Hon. J. B. Hobdy, State Vocational 
Director for Alabama. 

Business meeting. Election of offi- 
cers and other matters. 

Address—The Kindergarten—Mrs. 
Edna Dean Baker, president National 
Kindergarten Association. 

Address—Illiteracy — Mrs. 
Wilson Stewart, Kentucky. 

Departmental meetings Friday 3 
p. m., Lanier High School for Boys. 

Reception by Bibb County Teachers 
Association, 5:30 p. m., Lanier High 
School for Boys. 

Friday, April 17, 8:30 P. M.—Grand 
Opera House 

Invocation. 

Music—Mrs. Lalla Bright Ensign, 
director of voice, Bessie Tift College, 
Forsyth, Ga.; accompanist, Mrs. Ag- 
nes Newton. ~ 
| “Address—Dr, E. C, Brooks, presi- 
dent State College of North Carolina, 
Raleigh. —<, 

Address—Dr. Bruce R. Payne, prés- 
ident George Peabody College for 
Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. 

Saturday, 9:30 A. M.—Grand Opera 
House 


Cora 


Invocation. 

1. Address—A Legislative Pro- 
gram—Hon. Jas. A. Holloman, At- 
lanta. ; 

2. Address—Dr. N. L. Engel- 
hardt, Columbia University. 

8. Address—Miss Charl O. Wil- 
liams, field secretary National Edu- 
cation Association. 

4, Address—Tax Reform—Dr. R. 
P. Brooks, University of Georgia. 

5. Business Meeting. 

The officers of the Association are: 

President—Supt. Willis A. Sutton, 
Atlanta. 

Vice-President—Supt. W. P. Mar- 
tin, Gainesville. 

Treasurer—Supt. G. W. Glausier, 
Decatur. 

Secretary—Kyle T. Alfriend, Dean 


Bessie Tift College, Forsyth. 


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SUBTRACTION 
Viear: “What would happen if you 
broke one of the ten commandments ?” 
Willie: “Well, then there would be 
the other nine,” 


DUMB 
“Are you sure,” asked the old wo- 
man, “that this century plant will 
bloom in a hundred years?” 
Positive,” answered the florist. 
“Tf it doesnt, bring it right back.” 


A certain woman always made it 
her business to visit the poor patients 
in the hospital. 

On one occasion she approached a 
much bandaged individual who was 
sitting up in bed, and after a little 
preliminary talk, she said to him, 
very sympathetically, “I suppose your 
wife must miss you a great deal?” 

“No, mam!” came the prompt reply; 
“she’s got a wonderful aim for a wo- 
man.” 


I sent my boy to Yale, 
With a pat upon the back, 
I spent a few thousand dollars, 
And got a quarterback. 


“Where were you employed last?” 
asked the boss of the fair applicant. 

“In a doll factory.” 

“And what were your duties there?” 

“Making eyes.” 

“Very well, you’re engaged. But 
don’t demnostrate your capabilities 
when my wife is around.” 


“Terribly rough, isn’t it?” she ob- 
served as the roadster jolted over the 
road. 

“But,” he answered, “I have just 
shaved, my dear.” 


Captain: “Take this gun and watch.” 
Rookie: “Where’s the watch?” 


Two colored men were standing on 
the corner discussing family trees. 

“Yes, suh, man,” said Ambrose, 
“Ah kin trace mah relations back to 
a family tree.” 

“Chase ’em back to a family tree?” 
said Mose, 

“No, man! Trace ’em! 
not chase ’em!” 


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a—Serenade, 


“Well, dey ain’t but two kinds of 
things dat lives in trees—birds and 
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featherS on yo’. 


Six-year-old Mary awoke at 2 0’- 
clock in the mornifig. “Tell me a story 
mama,” she. pleaded. 

“Hush, dear,” said the mother, 
“daddy will be in soon and tell us both 
one.” 


THE PLACE FOR HIM 

Two sweethearts from Aberdeen 
were rambling round, when they came 
to a movie, 

The young man ran his eye over 
the front of the building. It rested 
on a title in large letters: “The Wo- 
man Pays.” 

“Jean,” he said. 
gang in here.” 


“Il think we'll 


CONGRATULATIONS 

“Are you still engaged to Miss Red- 
witz?” 

“No.” 

“You lucky man! I pitied you when 
you were. How did you get out of 
abt?” 

“T married her.” 


BUSINESS FIRST 

She: “All is over between us, and 
I am going to give you back your 
ring. There is another man.” 

He: “Tell me his name and address.” 

She: “You are going to kill him?” 

He: “By no means! I want to sell 
him the ring.” 


Man (in barber chair): “Be careful 
not to cut my hair too short—people 
will take me for my wife.” 


THERE WITH THE THRILLS 

He (ardently): “Have you never 
met a man whose touch seemed to 
thrill every fibre of your being?” 

She: “Oh yes, once—the dentist.” 


MISS DEXTER ADMITTED TO 
SOUTHERN SOCIETY OF 
PSYCHOLOGY 


Miss Dexter has just returned 
from a meeting of the Southern So- 
ciety of Psychology and Philosophy 
which met in Chapel Hill, N. C., from 
April 13 to 14. This society meets 


|| every year for the purpose of discuss- 


ing psychological and physiological 
problems. At this meeting several 
new members were admitted, among 
whom was Miss Dexter. The 1926 
meeting will be at the University of 
Kentucky. 


VIOLIN ENSEMBLE GIVES 
RECITAL 

(Continued from Page 1, Column 2) 
Holy angels guard thy bed, 
Heavenly blessings without number 
Gently falling on thy head.” 

c—Largo from E Major Quartet, 
(Haydn) Ensemble Class. 

Moment Musical, (Schubert) Miss 
Gladys Patz. 

For Love of You, (Densmore) Miss 
Virginia Miller. 

(Tosselli); b—Gavotte, 
(Popper) Miss Sarah Currie. 

Duet—Celeste Aida, (Verdi) Misses 
Sarah Currie, Gladys Patz. 

To a Hilltop, (Cox) Miss Virginia 
Miller. 

a—The Old Refrain, (Kreisler); b— 
Indian Lament, (Dvorak-Kreisler) 
Miss Pocahontas Wight. 

Shepherd’s Hey, (Percy Grainger) 
Miss Mary Ray Dobyns. 

Duet—Andante from Concerto for 
two violins, (Bach) Misses Mary 
Douglas, Pocahontas Wight. 
Members of Ensemble Class: Misses 

Pocahontas Wight, Sarah Currie, 

Gladys Patz, Jean Dozier, Isabelle 

Clarke, Emily Ehrlich, Virginia Hol- 

lingsworth, Louise Lovejoy, Huda 

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GRAND OPERA WEEK ATTRACTS 
THRONGS OF DELIGHTED 
LISTENERS 


(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


ST 
Tuesday Evening, April 21 
FALSTAFF 
(In Italian) 

Sir John Falstaff Antonio Scotti 


Det} ws Geer mene ne ee Lawrence Tibbett 
Fenton . Armand Lokatyan 
rr Cams So sie Angelo Bada 
Bardolph ............ Giordano Poltrinieri 
Pistol isk Adamo Didur 


Lucrezia Bori 
Anne . Frances Alda 
Dame Quickly 
Mistress Pogi 
This last work of the great Italian 
master, Verdi, was revived after fif- 
teen years with the greatest living 
exponent in the title role, Antonio 
Scotti as the Amorous Knight. Law- 
rence Tibbett in the role of Ford, 
scored a remarkable though unex- 
pected hit in the first performance. 
Wednesday Evening, April 22 
LA JUIVE 
(In French) 
Rosa Ponselle 


Rachel 

Eleazar 
Cardinal Brogni 
The Princess 


... Queena Mario 


TPBODOUG: sanasnsnenrenneprmeees Ralph Errolle 
ReiSPICKO-.......-..-.serqrverae Millo Picco 
Albert Louis d’Angelo 


Pavlo Ananian 
Major Domo .... Vincenzo Reschiglian 

La Juive is one of the master- 
pieces of French opera. Martinelli 
assumes the role of Eleazar and none 
who have seen him in the part deny 
that for him it has proved an admira- 
ble vehicle for the development of his 
art as a singing actor. 

Thursday Afternoon, April 23 
LOHENGRIN 
(In German) 

King Henry Michael Bahner 
Lohengrin Curt Laucher 
Elsay Brabant ... Elizabeth Rethberg 
Telrumund Clarence Whitehill 
Oxtrud Julian Claussen 
The King’s Herald....Lawrence Tibbett 

Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin has 
been included in the repertoire after 
an absence of years. ‘Three artists 
of the first rank, new to Atlanta, will 
be heard—the eminent Dresden so- 
prano, Mme. Elizabeth Rethberg, the 
great basso, Michael Bahner, and 
Curt Laucher, a well-known Wagner- 
ian tenor. The distinguished Ameri- 
can baritone, Clarence Whitehill will 
appear also. 

Friday Evening, April 24 
MEFISTOFELE 
(In Italian) 

Frances Alda 


Elena 
Pantalis .... 


Kathleen Howard 
Pee stn OOD Foedor Chaliapin 
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi 
Bi ee Angelo Bada 
Giordano Paltrinieri 
“Mefistofele’ Chaliapin will 
make his one appearance. He seems 
to have made this opera peculiarly 
his own and dominates the perform- 
ance from beginning to end, but will 
be associated with other first line 
members of the Company, including 
Mme. Frances Alda and Lauri-Volpi. 
The fantastic outfit provided by the 
famous Russian painter, Boris Anis- 
feld, is startling in its originality. 
Saturday Afternoon, April 25 
THE TALES OF HOFFMAN 


In 


ORGIDIA: cree Louisa Hunter 
Guilietta 

An toriisy ) ss seccscsecscss ee cseacee Lucrezia Bori 
Nicklausse Kathleen Howard 
TAS VOICE: ncesecssem see Henriette Wakefield 
Hoffman. .,.:...2::-..00+..- Edward Johnson 
Cappelius 

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Those of us who have been at Ag- 
nes Scott long enough to remember 
Dr. Gaines will always hold him in 
in love and reverence; 


our hearts 
therefore we especially enjoyed the 
beautiful memorial service to him, 
which was held at the Y. W. C. A. 
meeting Sunday, April 12, 

It was a beautiful service, which 
we hope in some measure passed on 
to those who had not the privilege 
of knowing him, something of the 
great things he has done for Agnes 
Scott. 

Anne McKay led the service and 
Mary Anne McKinney and Dorothy 
Keith read passages of his favorite 
seripture, then Mr. Candler paid a 
tribute to him and his work, and to 
Dr. Armstead, whose death was pre- 
cipitated by that of Dr. Gaines. 

Dr. Armstead was one of the most 
beloved members of the faculty, and 
his death following so soon on that 
of Dr. Gaines caused great grief on 
the campus, and among friends of 
Agnes Scott. 

Hyatt read a passage of Dr. Arm- 
stead’s favorite scripture. 
istead’s favorite scripture. 

Besides the favorite scripture pas- 
sages read there were a number of 
the favorite songs of both men sung. 

It is hoped that services like this 
will serve to perpetuate the mem- 
ories of two people who have meant 
so much to Agnes Scott. 


Spalanzani ................ George Meader 
Schlemil -.............-... Lawrence Tibbett 
Lindorf : 


Crespel Louis d’Angelo 
Andres 
Cachenille 
Franz 
Pitichinaccio 
Nathanael 


7} Angelo Bada 
STS rccceiias Max Altglass 
Hermann William Gustafson 
Luther Millo Picco 
“Tales of Hoffman” is the second 
French work to be presented. The 
splendid American tenor, one of the 
most finished artists on any operatic 
stage, Edward Johnson, will be the 
Hoffman and the popular Spanish So- 
prano, Mme. Lucrezia Bori, plays the 
double role of Giulietta and Antonia. 
The master of Italian “bel canto,” 
Giuseppe De Luca distinguishes him- 
self in the triple role of Cappelius, 
Dapertutto and Dr. Miracle, each a 
different manifestation of the evil 
spirit, who pursues the unfortunate 
hero. 
Saturday Evening, April 25 
TOSCA 
(In Italian) 
Florence Easton 
...Giovanni Mar- 
tinelli 
Antonio Scotti 
Louis d’Angelo 
Paolo Ananian 
ee Angelo Bada 
Sciarrone Vincenzo Reschiglian 
A Jailer Arnold Gabar 
A Shepherd ........ Henriette Wakefield 
“Tosca” with its tunefulness and 
thrills will wind up the season on Sat- 
urday night. The versatile Mme. 
Easton will be the Romance Singer, 
with Mr. Martinelli as the Painter 
Lover, and Mr. Scotti in his inimitable 
impersonation of the villainous Chief 
of Police, Baron Scarpia. 


Floria Lasca 
Mario Cavaradossi 


Baron Scarpia 
Cesare Angelotti 
The Sacristan 
Spaletta 


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HOASC ANNOUNCES THE ELEC- 
TION OF TWO NEW MEMBERS 
FROM CLASS OF '25 


Thomson and Wight Elected to 
Membership 


At a recent meeting of Hoase, it 
was voted that Eugenia Thompson: 
and Pocahontas Wight be elected to: 
membership. 

This election is a recognition of the. 
very real devotion to Agnes Scott 
that these two girls have manifested. 
Eugenia Thompson has served her 
college in Blackfriars, Pi Alpha Phi, 
class activities, and especially in the- 
Y. W. C. A., where she has worked 
in the Social Service Department, 
in the Industrial Commission and as 
Undergraduate Representative, Poca- 
hontas Wight has been a member of 
the intercollegiate debating team for 
three years, has contributed her musi- 
cal talent untiringly in Y. W. C. A. 
and in concerts, has been a member 
of Blaickfriars and of Pi Alpha Phi. 
More than any tangible thing these 
girls have done is the spirit wherein 
they have done it. 

It was with a deep sense of the 
fitness of things, thus that Hoase, 
the Senior honorary society, wel- 
comed its two new members, and. 
that Agnes Scott heard of their elec- 
tion. Formal initiations were held on: 
Tuesday night, April 21. 


DR. E. Y. McCOLLUM SPEAKS AT 
CHAPEL 

(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 
the most iniportant problem of the 
general concern, good health. Plenty 
of green vegetables—raw particular- 
ly—milk and dairy products, will 
serve as protective foods toward the 
development of teeth. 

It happens, though, that youth does 
not want advice about what to do. 
The ages from fourteen to twenty- 
eight are such satisfactory periods of 
life—periods in which anything can 
be done with seeming impunity— 
that youth does not care for advice 
about the penalty that must be paid 
later. Irregular eating, late hours, 
add heavy interest to the bill. 

After thirty, people are restrained. 
from doing what they wish, by prompt 
evil effects; after forty, many people 
are on the verge of invalidism. Old 
age comes on quickly if aided by a 
bad diet. 

Dr. McCollum ended his talk with 
the worth while admonition, “Do not 
be careless of your health until you. 
begin to lose, but seek to preserve the 
characteristics of youth while you 
have them.” 


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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1925 


No. 24 


May Day Celebration 
Great Success 


Old English Festival Held 
By Robin Hoode and 
Mayde Marion 


All the loyal subjects of the king- 
dom of May time and Joy assembled 
last Saturday at the command of 
Robin Hoode and Mayde Marian to cel- 
ebrate May Day with song and dance 
and revelings. The young in heart 
and the young in spirit gathered in 
the amphitheater back of the campus 
to watch the spirits of the forest and 
the village maidens and yeomen make 
merry on the green. 

In preparation for the celebration 
of May Day, the village maidens went 
out before sunrise to wash their faces 
in the dew on the pink hawthorne, to 
make their complexions beautiful. 
There, they were surprised by the 
Goddess of the Sun and her Spirits, 
who come to herald the dawn. Dainty 
wood nymphs, clad in palest green, 
and vari-colored butterflies joined 
them in proclaiming the beauties of 
magical Sherwood Forest, robed in its 
spring dress of emerald leaves and 
velvety grass. 

Robin Hoode and Mayde Marian, 
the King and Queene of the Maye, en- 
tered, announced by two royal heralds. 
The Queen was robed in white satin, 
embroidered in pearls; and her flaxen 
hair, bound with ropes of pearls, hung 
in long braids over her shoulders. She 
was attended by ten maids, dressed in 
gowns of pastel colors, which were 
made after the fashion of the thir- 
teenth century. Robyn Hoode was es- 
corted by his “Yeomen” dressed in the 
Lincoln green of the Merry Men. 

For the entertainment of the King 
and Queene, the country maidens 
danced, and Jack and the Green, and 
three country boys dressed as Hobby 
Horses, greatly amused the villagers 
by their antics. Then, following the 
ancient custom, the “Yeomen” en- 
gaged in an archery contest, using the 
famous English long bow. With every 
moment the fun grew. The Mylk 
Mayde danced merrily around the cow, 
and the squires showed their skill and 
bravery in the sword dance. 

During all the fun, Lytle John, 
Robyn Hoode’s trusty friend, had been 
eyeing worshipfully Kate the village 
maiden. When they all surrounded 
the Maye Pole, the Green top bough 

(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) 


Roman Wedding 


Students of Latin and Greek who 
attended the meeting of Classical 
Club last Wednesday, April 29, were 
delighted with the realistic Roman 
wedding presented by some of their 
fellow members. Julia, daughter of 
the illustrious Cicero himself, was 
wedded to Gaius Pirvo, a rising young 
man of the day. The cast was as 
follows: 

Bride, Julia—Sarah Shields. 

Father of bride, Marcus Tulius Ci- 
cero—Janet MacDonald. 

Mother of bride, Terentia—Susan 
Clayton. 

Brother of bride, 
Jr.—Evelyn Allbright. 

Groom, Gaius Piro—Lamar Lowe. 

Father of groom, Luideus Piro 
Frugi—Irene Lawrence. 

Mother of groom—Frances Brown. 

Pontifex Maximus—Sara Lee Turn- 
er. 

Flameu Dialia—Frances Craighead. 

Sectors—Mary Bell McConkey, 
Emily Kingsbery. 

Pronuba—Louise Woodard. 

Boy attendants—Helen Daniel, Nell 
Hillhance, Mary McAliley, Katherine 
Gray. 

Slave girl, Camilla—Charlotte Buck- 
fjland. 

Flute players—Josephine Houston, 
Mary Crenshaw. 

Chorus—Brownie Smith, Lila Porch- 
er, Virginia Miller, Frances Gardner, 
‘WNancy Crowther, Susan Rose. 

‘) (Continued en Page 4, Column 1) 


Marcus Tulius, 


Classical Club Gives. 


Program For May Full 
and Interesting 


May ushers in the last school month 
and brings to the College community 
a series of varied and delightful ac- 
tivities. The program for the present 
month contains enough entertain- 
ments to counterbalance the two long 
weeks of cramming which all of the 
students and at least a part of the 
faculty would like to have omitted 
from the calendar of the last spring 
month. With such treats in store as 
May Day, Senior Opera, recitals, 
plays, banquets, and teas, it will be 
possible for even the weakest to sur- 
vive for exams will afterwards seem 
like just a bad dream that lasted too 
long, while pleasant recollections will 
remain of bright colored sprites danc- 
ing in the green of the woodland on 
May Day, of giggles, squeals, and 
Hershey bars at the presentation of 
“Tan Trousers,” of enjoyable plays 
and recitals, of luncheons, teas, and 
banquets, of delightful moments 
snatched from a busy day and spent in 
chatting with friends, but most of all, 
the glowing memory of Seniors, black 
gowned, and dignified, Sophomore 
sisters sweet in their soft white 
dresses, and the majestic strains of 
“Ancient of Days.” 

Program for May 

May 2.—May Day. Senior Opera, 
“Tan Trousers.” 

May 9.—Sophomore tea for Seniors. 
Miss Gooch presents her department 
in a recital. ey 

May 16.—Sophomore Sisters’ lunch- 
eon for Seniors. Deeatar Alumnae 
gives» play. aie 

May 21.—Annual Alumnae Council 
meeting. Juniors give banquet at 
East Lake for Seniors. 

May 22.—Annual meeting of Board 
of Trustees. Alumnae Baby Show. 

May 23.—Trustees’ luncheon to the 
Alumnae and Senior Class. Annual 
meeting of the Alumnate Association. 
Presentation by Blackfriars of One- 
Act Plays. 


May 24.—Baccalaureate Sermon, 


| Decatur Presbyterian Church, by the 


Reverend George R. Stuart, D. D., 
pastor of the First Methodist church, 
Birmingham, Alabama. 

May 25.—Seniors give breakfast for 
Sophomores. Luncheons for Reunion 
Classes. Class Day Exercises. Con- 
cert by Glee Club. 

May 26.—Address to Senior Class 
by Professor Edwin Mims, M.A., 
LL.D., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tennessee. Conferring of 
Degrees. 


New System of 
Compiling Hand-Book 


Previously it has been the duty of 
one person to revise the Student Gov- 
ernment Hand-Book; but this year 
the executive committee has formed 
a new plan which will give every mem- 
ber of the student body an opportunity 
to approve the rules or to suggest any 
changes. 

Each class is to select a committee 
of five who will consider the old rules, 
suggest new ones, and make any 
changes which they think are needed. 
After the decision of the committee 
is approved by the class, two girls 
from each committee are chosen, 
forming a new committee of eight. 
This committee will arrange one 
Hand-Book from the Hand-Books of 
the four classes, which after being 
approved by the executive committee 
will be the Hand-Book for next year. 

This plan was heartily accepted by 
the students. It is hoped that it will 
be suecessful not only in making the 
Hand-Book more representative of the 
whole student body, but also in giving 
the students an opportunity to know 
all of the rules. 


Senior Class Presents 


Opera 


“Tan Trousers” Latest Musical 
Sensation 


“Ah—artistic, superb—” ejacula- 
tions rose from the enthralled audi- 
ence viewing the Premiere of the 
greatest modern opera supported by 
a most remarkable cast. This latest 
sensation in the musical world, “Tan 
Trousers,” met with astounding suc- 
cess. The originality of the plot, and 
ability with which the artists acted 
and sang, swaying the entire audience 
from tears to laughters, and again 
to racking sobs, was a combination 
that proved irresistible. 

The scene of the greatest tragedy 
that has ever been viewed by many 
protected maidens of Agnes Scott, was 
laid in Castoria, a province in Spain, 
and was caused by the ill-omened love 
of Senorita Mockeater (Senorita El- 
len Walker) for a handsome and brave 
American, Tan Trousers (Senor Fran- 
cis Bitzer). The Dupe (Senor Mar- 
tha Linn Manley), and the Dupess 
(Senorita Issabel Furgeson) of Cas- 
toria, illustrious parents of Mockeater, 
had decided upon the marriage of 
their beautiful daughter to a Spanish 
Toreador, Don Kidme (Senor Georgia 
May Little). The first scene of the 
Heat lays before us this problem. 

The second scene of the same Heat 
—outwardly so peaceful, with a Span- 
ish Balcony overlooking a picturesque 
street!—brings Don Kidme to his love 
to whom he sings most passionately. 
But Mockeater, already lost in her 
love for Tan Trousers, rebukes him, 
and and will not accept the rose which 
he desires to throw to her. At this 
stage, a little flower vender (Senorita 
Margaret Hyatt) enters. Coyly she ap- 
proaches the balcony, and seeing Don 
Kidme’s distress, begs him to give the 
rejected flower to her. He does, and 
Mockeater from above, registers some- 
thing akin to anger, or perhaps only 
jealousy. Just then six dancers ap- 
proach, and marvelously execute an in- 
tricate ballet. Tired and thirsty after 
their efforts, they ask for water, which 
sweet Mockeater brings to them, but 
overcome by the green monster, she 
puts poison in the cup of the little 
flower vender, and thus the innocent 
victim of fate dies. 

Heat two brings us to a cabaret. 
Here we have a feeling of foreboding. 
Don Kidme meets Tan Trousers. 
Mockeater comes in the guise of the 
flower vender to discover the true 
state of her lover’s hearts, but her 
disguise is penetrated by Tan Trous- 
ers. The lovers then plan a duel over 
beautiful Mockeater but decide. that 
the final decision shall be left to their 
respective fates before a bull in the 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 5) 


Recital Given By 
Martha Johnston 
and Ruth Drane 


The second semester has been 
marked by many delightful recitals 
but the peak of enjoyment was cer- 


tainly reached last Tuesday evening. | 


At that time the Department of Music 
sponsored the recital given by Misses 
Martha Johnston and Ruth Drane, who 
were accompanied by Mr. Johnston. 
Both of these girls have splendid, well 
trained soprano voices. They are 
among the most talented students of 
the department, and their singing was 


a delight to the audience. The pro- 
gram was as follows: 
Spiagge Amate .20.20022.2...0..-.. Gluck 


Se Saran Rose 
When Thou Art Nigh 


I Passed By Your Window.......... Brahe 
The Lark Now Leaves His Watery 

IN GSE, = Sk ce ee ty | se Parker 
PNG! WAL OW as seccassceceeecsstees ee Thomas 


If I Were a Butterfly... Turner-Malley 
When Celia Sings Moir 
I Hear a Thrush at Eve 
Boat Song 
Ah, Love But a Day 


A Japanese Love Song ............ Brahe 
A Brown Bird Singing ........... Wood 
Thanks Be to Gad*............... Dickson 


Duet—Sull *Aria (Figaro) ....Mozart 


Hoasc Announce Seven 


New Members 


Student Government 
Conference In Florida 


Virginia Browning, Virginia Peeler, 
and Mary Anne McKinney made re- 
ports in chapel, April 30, of the 
student government conference that 
they attended at the Florida State 
College for Women in Tallahassee, 
April 23-25. 

Virginia Browning gave the social 
aspect of the conference and told of 
the Southern hospitality extended 
them. She also expressed apprecia- 
tion of the fact that Virginia Peeler, 
president of the Y. W. C. A. next 
year, was interested enough in student 
government affairs to go to the con- 
ference also. 

Virginia Peeler expressed the de- 
sire that the student government and 
Y. W. C. A. should co-operate and 
work together for more ideal every- 
day life on the campus. 

Then Mary Anne took up the more 
serious side of the conference and 
told of the problems discussed there. 
In order to bridge over the jump from 
secondary education to the college, the 
extension of the honor system in the 
high school was considered. It was 
voted to support a paid secretary for 
this work as it was felt that even 
those who did not go to college would 
be benefited as citizens, Then in 
different meetings the executive, leg- 
islative and judicial branches of stu- 
dent government were discussed with 
the aid of prominent educators. 

Dr. Brenau, of the Florida state 
laws ef student government should be 
few in number, general rather than 
specific, and co-ordinate with natural 
laws. He-said that a law school be 
presented to students only when their 
minds had been prepared for it by 
training, publicity in papers, and dis- 
cussion groups. 

Mrs. Lloyd Jones, Dean of Women 
at Northwestern University, in con- 
sidernig the judicial phase of student 
government, rather outlined a Utopia. 
She declared that the executive com- 
mittee did not set a high enough 
standard and that the standard was 
often subsittuted by rules and regu- 
lations. The students should be given 
a realization of what they owe. their 
college, and their character should be 
developed by student government. She 
added that personality and good will 
on the part of the council often help 
toward this ideal. 

On Saturday morning a business 
meeting was held at which it was 
decided to have the conference meet 
at Wesleyan next year with Eliza- 
beth Roundtree of Sweet Brier as 
president. 


Blackfriars Select 


Commencement Plays 


Blackfriars has selected the plays 


which they will present during Com-| 


mencement week. The first is “Never- 
theless”, by Stuart Walker, a comedy 
dealing with the correct use of Eng- 
lish, Perhaps we shall meet a sec- 
ond “Mrs Malaprop”! The second is 
“Will o’ the Wisp”, by Doris Haliman, 
a play of atmosphere and symbolism. 
Last comes “Followers”, by Harold 
Bridgehouse. It is a delicate love story 
of the old Cranford of 1835. We know 
that Blackfriars will be as success- 
ful as usual and we are looking for- 


ward eagerly to seeing these plays. 
_ “Nevertheless” 

ehhg Maweeeaneene ee oe Jaen Martha Crowe 

3) — ....Frances Freeborn 

Burglar ies csee Florence Perkins 

Sepcescs WHO" AOC WISD neon 


Country Woman ........ Roberta Winter 
Poet’s: Wife .....-.-....-..2.2 Isabel Ferguson 
Nora (maid) ............-. Louise Buchanan 
Will o’ the Wisp ........ Mary Freeman 
“Followers” 
Miss Lucinda Baines ....Ellen Walker 
Helen Masters ....Elizabeth Cheatham 
Susan (maid 
Colonel Redfern ....Georgia May Little 


Browning, Duls, Fain, 
Graeber, Peeler, Slaughter, 
Tufts, Elected 


“Maybe you don’t think I was 
thrilled”, one Freshman was heard to 
remark, “when Hoase came marching 
down the isle, to the soul stirring 
notes of ‘Ancient of Days’!” Somehow, 
this Freshman chose just the fitting 
words to express our feelings. The 
noble strains of “Ancient of Days” 
are always soul-stirring but possibly 
never more so than when connected 
with Hoasc processional. No other 
piece of music, except our Alma 
Mater, will in after years be so close- 
ly connected with Agnes Scott—the 
love, loyalty, and ambitions we have 
for her. 

At the close of Dr. MeCain’s pray- 
er, Carrie Scandrett, who was our 
student government presided last 
year, told something of the origin, 
foundation and history of the club, 
and the requirements for election to 
membership. These requirements take 
into consideration first and foremost, 
loyalty and service to our college, 
and subsequently, academic standing 
and general attitude. Then amid 
the pleasant thrill of anticipation, 
“Dick” concluded by saying: “It gives 
Hoase great pleasure to announce as 
its new members: Virginia Browning, 
Louisa Duls, Catherine Graeber, El- 
len Fain, Sara Slaughter, Virginia 
Peeler and Margaret Tufts. 


Blue Ridge Week 
Inspires Students 


Agnes Scott has Blue Ridge girls 
to thank for a week of most inter- 
esting talks at Chapel and entertain- 
ments after Vespers. Blue Ridge, as 
we all know, is the conference ground 
for religious organizations. We are 
particularly interested in it, for our 
Y. W. sends three representatives to 
the Y. W. C. A. conference each year, 
and many Agnes Scott girls go for the 
fun of this camp life and the benefit 
to be derived from the religious con- 
ferences. The object of the Blue 
Ridge Week was to interest girls in 
Blue Ridge, and give every one a bet- 
ter idea of just exactly what life at 
Blue Ridge is like, and what it means. 

A Sing on Main steps Monday nigh 
opened the week. It was a lovely 
idea, and though Main rose at our 
backs, and the automobile lights broke 
the darkness in the foreground, those 
who know Blue Ridge almost felt 
themselves again in the mountains, 
for the night was silent, and the moon 
lighted the campus as the voices rose. 

Miss Bland held the chapel ser- 
vices Wednesday. She first read cer- 
tain passages from the Bible that 
brought together God and nature. 
Then she described a typical mountain 
‘church with its bareness, and ignorant, 
yet sincere worshipers. 

Miss Preston led the service Thurs- 
day. She spoke on the Life of Christ, 
and the influence of certain friend- 
ships on His Life. 

A stunt drew many to the Chapel 
Wednesday night, and it was well 
worth the coming. The stunt illus- 
trated a bit of Blue Ridge life—a 
scene at the store— but the conversa- 
tion told much more. It brought out 
the many out-door activities, the good 
food, the interesting conferences, and 
more than all, how each one was 
Yearning to ‘love and “Bollow the 
Gleam.” The stunt was very im- 
pressive. “To go to Blue Ridge” be- 
came the desire of almost (I might 
say all) who saw it. é 

Olivia Swann and Emily Spivy 
spoke at Chapel on Friday. Olivia on 
“Social Life in Cottages,” and Emily 
jokingly on “Blue Ridge Statistics.” 

Besides the usual number of Agnes 
Scott girls who will attend the con- 
ference this year, our Y. W. will send 
its President, Virginia Peeler; Repre- 

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STAFF OF AGONISTIC. 


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REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE: 


caress sie ie , Martha Anderson, ’28 

anet McDonald, ’2 i ’ 

Emily Ehrlich, ’27 TUS EER 

Nellie Richardson, '26 Emily Kingsberry, ’28 
Miriam Preston, ’27 


Martha Turner, ’28 
Eleanor Bennett, ’28 Margaret Tufts, ’26 


The Agonistic did not appear last week because the money set 
aside for its publication then, was donated to the fund for the 
new gymnasium, 


THE BLUE RIDGE CONFERENCE 


We can find no more fitting message for this farewell issue of 
the Agonistic than to wish that you may have a delightful vaca- 
tion, and to advise that you have a profitable one. And may we 
suggest that the best way to begin a delightful and profitable vaca- 
tion is to attend the Y. W. C.A. Conference at Blue Ridge, from 
June 5-18. 


Blue Ridge week has pictured Blue Ridge for us so completely 
that we need dwell only briefly here on the joys and advantages of 
attending the conference. The classes and discussion groups fur- 
nish eye opening knowledge and arouse an unbelievable amount of 
interest. They deal with problems of the local Y. W. C. A. and of 
the national Y. W. C. A., and with those of world-wide import. To 
discuss with a large number of girls and leaders such problems as 
the “race question” is not only stimulating for the present, but also 
useful for future citizenship. 


But the knowledge of and interest in questions of universal 
significance is not the most important thing one carries away 
from Blue Ridge. It is the spirit of the place—that something 
which defies analysis—born of a common interest in service to hu- 
manity, of fellowship with kindred suols of blue-green mountains, 
vesper hymns, and gorgeous sunset hues. To spend ten days in 
Blue Ridge is to stand for a moment on the Mount of Transfigura- 
tion and catch a glimpse of the Master’s face. 


Would you be “standards of worth o’er all the earth?” Then 
“follo wthe gleam,” but first, see the gleam, at Blue Ridge. 


"| CONGRATULATIONS, SOPHOMORES 


We believe that the Sophomore Class deserves a vote of com- 
mendation from the college community for the efficiency with 
which its members have carried out the recently devised plan for 
furnishing napkins in the dining-rooms. It will be remembered 
that the plan called for each student’s turning in to the matron 
of her dining-room six napkins. After that, the college would fur- 
nish students with napkins, fresh six times a week; and the said 
napkins would be laundered by the college and could not be re- 
moved from the dining-room by students. The Sophomore Class 
undertook the decidedly difficult task of collecting napkins from 


the students, ordering new ones for those who did not have six. 
The class has worked so effectively that the new system has al- 
ready been established in Rebekah Scott dining-room and prob- 
ably will be, soon, in White House. 


GYMNASIUM CLASSES STOP 
FOR THIS YEAR 


many freckles and blisters had already 
appeared on our complexions and the 
sun seemed to be shining with un- 
usual brilliance out on the gymnasium 


Physical Examination Required 

It seems that if Pi Alpha Phi try- 
outs had been held a few weeks later 
the aspirants arguing the negative 
side of the question, “Resolved, That 
Gym Classes Should Stop After 
Spring Holidays,” would have had lit- 
tle argument on which to base their 
claims, because the very next week 
Dr. Sweet announced that all regular 
gymnasium classes would stop after 
Friday, April 24, 

This announcement was greeted 
with smiles and applause because too 


field. ? 

Those, however, who desire can 
continue to “get them up a team” and 
challenge their most hated rival when- 
eyer they are so disposed, because 
four hours of unsupervised exercise 
is required of each girl except seniors 
for the four remaining weeks. 

Beginning Monday, April 27, and 
continuing through May 15, physical 
examinations will be given. These ex- 
aminations are required of all students 
before any credit for physical educa- 
tion will be given. 


“Meteors” Published 
By Former Professor 


At Agnes Scott 


“Meteors,” the first general work 
on meteoric astronomy since 1871, 
was written by Dr. Charles P. Oliver, 
who was professor of physics at Ag- 
nes Scott from 1911 to 1914. 

Charles P. Oliver, M.A., Ph.D., is 
one of the foremost authorities in the 
world on the subject of meteors. Hé 
is the author of numerous articles in 
American and European astronomical 
journals, in which his first work ap- 
peared in 1901, 

Dr. Oliver is a Fellow of the Royal 
Astronomie Society, and also of the 
American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. He is a mem- 
ber of the Societi Astronomique de 
the Societi Astronomique 

the American Astronomic 
Society, and the Committee on Me- 
teors of the International Astronomic 
Union. He is also a member of the 
Honorary Society of Phi Beta Kappa, 
a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity 
and founder of the American Meteor 
Society. 


France, 
d’Auvers, 


Dr. Oliver was formerly assistant 
at the Lick Observatory and volunteer 
member of the United States Naval 
Observatory Eclipse Expedition to 
Spain in 1905. During the recent war, 
Dr. Oliver did research work on the 
anti-aircraft artillery at Aberdeen, 
Md. Since 1914 he has been associate 
professor of astronomy at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia and astronomer at 
Leander McDermock Observatory. 


His book, “Meteors,” was written 
for amateur professional workers and 
in fact, for all lovers of nature. The 
purpose of the book is to bring within 
the reach of the educated reader, as 
well as the astronomer, the latest de- 
velopment of the theories of meteoric 
astronomy. In this work, he gives 
explicit directions for making observa- 
tions. “Meteors” is said to be the 
most thorough treatment of radiants 
ever published. It is the latest in- 
formant on the application of pho- 
tography, published by the Williams 
and Wilkins Company, publishers of 
scientific books and periodicals, Balti- 
more, Md. There has been no general 
book written on meteoric astronomy 
since 1871 when Schiaparelli’s classi- 
cal work, “Sternschnuppen,” appeared. 
Since this book appeared in England, 
it is very hard to secure on account 
of its popularity. 

In “Meteors,” Dr. Oliver first gives 
the Historical Introduction. Some of 
the topics which he then discusses are 
How Meteors Are Observed, Comets, 
the Leonids, the Perseids, the Hy- 
drids, the Bielids or Andomedes, the 
Halley’s Comet Meteors, and the Pans- 
Winnecke’s Comet, Radiants, Do Ra- 
diants, Exit, Suggested Explanation 
of Stationary Radiants, Opponent 
Paths of Meteors within the atmos- 
phere, Computation of Real Heights 
of Meteors, Opponent Distribution of 
Meteors in Time and Space, Forma- 
tion of Meteor Streams, Perturbation 
of Meteor Orbits and Influence of Me- 
teors upon the Earth. He also dis- 
cusses the Formation of Bielids and 
Perseid Streams, Meteorites, Origin 
of Meteors, Fireballs and Meteorites, 
and then gives his conclusions. 


AGNES SCOTT AND EMORY 
MATHEMATICS CLUBS HOLD 
JOINT MEETING HERE 


Monday night the Mathematics 
Clubs of Agnes Scott and Emory held 
their regular monthly gatherings in 
a joint meeting, in the Physics Lec- 
ture room, Both clubs contributed 
their share to the evening’s program. 
Consequently, the meeting was one 
of the most successful held this year. 

In behalf of Emory, Ernest Hart- 
sock gave a splendid talk on “Phil- 
osophy and Mathematics”, and J. C. 
Haroord spoke entertainingly on 
“Perspective Triangles”. Catherine 
Randolph represented the Agnesi Club 
with a paper on “The Atomic Theory”, 
after which Hazel Huff demonstrated 
the scientific method of plotting equa- 
tions of a high degree. 

The intellectual part of the program 
was very interesting; but no less so 
was the social hour which brought 
the last meeting of the year to a 
close. 


Memorial Day 
Celebrated 


It is indeed fitting that we Ameri- 
cans, who are termed a people con- 
tinually busy about earthly matters, 
should, on Memoria] Day, turn aside 
from the ordinary routine of life to 
think of the soldires of the sixties, 
who fought and died that the very 
principles upon which our United 
States is founded might live, Both 
the men in gray and those in blue 
went into a grim and terrible war, be- 
leiving in the cause for which they 
were ready to lay down their lives. 
War, through the terrible experiences 
that it must of necessity involve, ul- 
timately brought the people of the 
North and South closer together. 

Sometimes people speak in a sad, 
low voice of the lost cause of the 
Confederacy. Do they not realize that 
the ideals for which the men in gray 
were willing to sacrifice all—to leave 
home and loved ones, to suffer every 
form of privation, to live on parched 
corn for days—are essential to the 
very soul of the nation and can not 
perish until every true citizen of 
America lies beneath the sod? Not 
only did our Confederate soldiers bear 
the trials of war with a never-failing 
courage; but, when peace was de- 
clared, they set to work with a loyal, 
God-fearing earnestness to meet the 
problems of the dark days of recon- 
struction and to weld the states to- 
gether with an indissoluble bond by 
rebuilding the Southland. No, the 
cause for which the Southern soldiers 
fought is not a lost cause, but a glori- 
ously triumphant one! 

The heroes of the gray deserve our 
undying love and honor. They lived 
and died for the principles and ideals 
which make life worth the living. It 
is, then, meet that we should set aside 
one special day of the year to lay our 
tribute at their feet. 

The memorial services held in At- 
lanta were simple and impressive. In 
the early part of the quiet Sabbath 
afternoon the remnant of a once great 
army which fought under the Stars 
and Bars in the days of the sixties 
marched out to Oakland cemetery to 
the beloved strains of “Dixie” to ren- 
der homage to their dead comrades 
who gave their all that the principles 
which they cherished might not perish 
from the earth. With what proud and 
splendid dignity those heroes in gray 
responded to the old, familiar air! 
The whole 122nd Regiment, National 
Guard, which is known as “Atlanta’s 
Own,” was led by its fifty-piece band 
and took part in the parade. 

Flags and garlands had been placed 
on the Confederate mounds, and a 
large crowd had gathered at the ceme- 
tery to be present at the ceremonies. 
Dr. Ben R. Lacy, pastor of Central 
Presbyterian Churdh, delivered ‘the 
principal address, while Dr. J. B. 
Mitchell, pastor of St. Mark’s Metho- 
dist church, served as chaplain, and 
Captain Basil Stockbridge was mar- 
shal of the day. The spirit of rev- 
erent dignity pervaded the services. 

Let us remember always to keep 
Memorial Day sacred to the memory 
of our heroes of the War Between the 
States! They lived lives that were 
faithful to their ideals of truth and 
right. We can not, therefore, fail to 
be true to the best that is in man- 
kind, if we hold fast to our ideals and 
thus follow in their footsteps. 


Intercollegiate 
News 


An investigation at the University 
of Chicago which lasted a year dis- 
close the information that a student 
should spend at least 42 hours a week 
studying, and not over two hours at 


parties. It is also recommended that 
two hours each week be given to se- 
rious reading on some line not touch- 
ing the course, two hours to religious 
and seven hours to physical activities. 


Polo has been officially recognized 
by the Virginia Military Institute 
athletie council as a minor sport, and 
monograms will be awarded to this 
year’s team. Although recognized as 
an athletic activity for two years, the 
present season is the first that has 
really engaged attention, The cadet 
four has arranged a schedule calling 
for games with seven leading colleges 
and club teams including tournaments 
in Richmond and New York, 


Special favors for juniors and se- 
niors have been instituted, or are be- 
ing considered at the following places: 

Amherst: Twenty Amherst juniors 
and seniors who have maintained an 
average of 85 per cent. or better in 
their class work, have been granted 
the privilege of attending classes at 
their discretion. 

University of Kansas; Agitation is 
being carried on to exempt seniors 
of A and B standing from their final 
second semester examinations. 

University of North Carolina: Fifty 
juniors and seniors were granted op- 
tional class attendance during the 
winter quarter as a reward for mak- 
ing a B average during the fall quar- 
ter. 

—The Spokesman. 


Reformers, educators, journalists 
and novelists have been busy for a 
long time trying to decide how a col- 
lege student clothes the interior of his 
head. The following are the first find- 
ings in an inquiry as to the external 
wearing apparel: 

University of Florida: As a sym- 
bol of maturity, learning and distine- 
tion, seniors at the U, of Fla. wear 
brown derbies. 

University of Oregon: Sophomore 
men have adopted blue denim trouseds 
as their official wearing apparel. The 
trousers are of a heavy material and 
are cut in the most recent mode. 

Johns Hopkins University: About 
half the men go in for the latest, loud- 
est in ties, socks, ete. 

University of Washington: A rage 
for masculine clothing has possessed 
the girls here. It originated with the 
advent of the shingle bob which ex- 
posed many necks to the Washington 
weather and necessitated the wearing 
of men’s shirts, checkered flannel ones 
preferred. Then followed a crime 
wave in which the girls “borrowed” 
from their boy friends everything 
from “bow ties to knit ties, spotted 
neckwear to those “pash” turkey red 
affairs.” 


MISS McKINNEY FORMS AGNES 
SCOTT CLUB IN BIRMINGHAM 


Miss McKinney has been missed 
from the campus for a few days while 
she was in Birmingham for the pur- 
pose of organizing an Agnes Scott 
Alumnae Club among the former stu- 
dents of Agnes Scott in that city. 
She left Friday, April 24 and after a 
very successful and pleasant week- 
end, returned Sunday. 


Agnes Scott College 


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GIDDIE 


GOSSIP 


Wednesday Night. 
Well! Giddie, do you realize that 
this is the very last time I’m going 
to write to you this year? And that 
when I write you again, I’ll be a Soph- 

omore!! Wion’t that seem funny? 
And really so much as happened 
in the last few days that I hardly 
know where to begin or what to tell. 


First, tell me this: what color is 
“dark black?” Have you ever heard 
of it? Well, I hadn’t either till just 
now, but I heard somebody say there 
was such a color. 

And did you hear that about Mar- 
garet Hyatt? But sh— it’s too bad 
to tell—(rather that’s what she said.) 

Giddie, there’s more mysterious 
things going ‘round here than you 
ever thought about—for instance— 
Dot Keith got a call from a boy at 
Georgia the other day and he says 
he’s coming over here to see her some 
day, but she doesn’t even know him! 
But wouldn’t you be excited if some- 
thing like that would happen to you? 
I would, but then I’m such an ordinary 
everyday girl that nothing could hap- 
pen to me. 

But if extraordinary things mean 
anything Izzy Ferguson certainly is 
an uncommon girl, because two non- 
descript—or is it anonymous?—boys, 
one a senior at Georgia, and one at 
Tech, sent her corsages or something 
like that just because they liked her 
looks. I think. And then an entirely 
different one heard her debate and he 
fell. So she got asked out for the 
week-end just to meet him—but she 
didn’t go. 

And on top of all this, Elizabeth 
Roark hed a call from some boy who 


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as a pretty girl and he wanted to 
meet her. 

Giddie, are my looks so awfully dif- 
ferent from those girls that nobody 
ever falls for me? I think there must 
be something of an “elderly lady 
type” engrained in my constitution or 
makeup that boys just don’t naturally 
fall for. 

Well anyway, I don’t care! 

Guess what? The other day Miss 
Sinclair was at “the Rivals” and she 
saw Miss Amis sitting several seats 
ahead of her so she threw a little wad 
of paper at her to make her look 
around—Well the policeman came up 
and tapped Miss Sinclair on the shoul- 
der and told her she must not do any- 
thing like that as it was strictly 
against rules! I bet that policeman 
didn’t know he was talking to an Ag- 
nes Scott faculty tho’— 

I think I’m going to camp next 
week end, Giddie, and I’m all excited 
over it. And speaking of camp—the 
other day Lou Buchanan went in a 
store to get some ‘“weenies” for a 
camp supper and when the man asked 
her how many she wanted, she said 
“Oh, I don’t know! How do you sell 
them?—by the yard?” I think I 
would have known better than that 
and I’m just a Freshman. 

Well—guess I better stop now and 
do a little work—as if that’s not 
what I’ve been doing every day this 
week and all the others too. 

Oh yes! I forgot to tell you Anne 
McKay got proposed to the other day 
and may go to Norway to live! 

But I must go— 

Always yours—even if I do some- 
day get a proposal, 


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Alumnae News 


If it seems to our readers that we 
have an undue number of weddings 
in this week’s issue, just remember 
that this is April, that it will soon 
be May, and that it’s in the air, 
girls! 

Mr. and Mrs. R, E. Bordeau an- 
nounce the marriage of their daugh- 
ter, Hazel, to Mr. William Owen Lyon 
on Thursday evening, April 23, 1925, 
at seven o’clock, at the First Presby- 
terian Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, 
Hazel graduated from Agnes Scott 
in 1923. 

The following invitations have been 
recently sent out: 

“Mr, and Mrs. Charles Carter re- 
quest the honor of your presence at 
the marriage of their dawghter, An- 
nette, to Mr. Ernest Cadman Cald- 
well on Thursday, May 7, at 5 o’clock 
in the afternoon at the First Meth- 
odist Church, Decatur, Georgia.” 
Annette was at school here last year 
and is with us now as an assistant 
librarian. 

Miss Essie Roberts, ’14, recently 
became the bride of Mr. Walter Du- 
pree. After graduating from Agnes 
Scott in 1914. She went to Columbia 
University where she received an M. 
A. degree in 1916. For some time 
she was an assistant in the Mathe- 
matics Department of Agnes Scott, 
but at the time of her marriage she 
was at the head of Cator Wolfords 
Placement office. 

Julia Frances Abbot, ’18, was re- 
cently married to Mr. Alvin Wlikins 
Neely. Mr. Neely is a cousin of Mrs. 
Sturges. 

The marriage of Katherine Du Bose 
to Mr. Edwin Kent Davis will be 
solemnized Wednesday, April 29 at 
noon in Atlanta. 

Mary W. Caldwell will be a mem- 
ber of the graduating class of St. 
Luke’s Hospital Training School for 
nurses, whose exercises will be held 
Friday, May 1, at the Commonwealth 
Club Auditorium, Richmond, Va. 


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Regulations To Be 
Observed Before 
Leaving 
Before leaving college for the va- 
cation remember (1) to report to Miss 
Hopkins the name of your next year’s 
room-mate; (2) to pack in covered 
boxes bearing your name and room 
number all articles to be left at col- 
lege during the summer months; un- 
less these articles be the secretary’s 
or treasurer’s record books belonging 
to some organization, which books 
are to be turned in at one of the ad- 
ministration offices; (3) to register 
with Miss Hopkins if you leave col- 
lege bfeore commencement day. In 
order that you might better remem- 
ber the above regulations, we have 

put them in rhyme as follows: 

Now that school is drawing to a close, 

Miss Hopkins, not without her usual 
compose, 

Has said in tones both low and sweet: 

“Girls, concerning important things 
we must meet. 


Some have been negligent in registra- 
tion, 

Which, as you know, breaks all regu- 
lation; 

The thing to do, girls, is sign up right 
now. 

The girl you’re to room with, where 
and how. 

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No trouble to do it; 

There’s nothing much to it, 

But it saves so much confusion 

As well as disillusion, 

In the program of the year to come.” 

There’s another thing to mention, 

And I invite your attention, 

To the records which your secretaries 
and tresaurers hold. 

Such valuables must not be trusted to 
refrain 

From escaping from a careless place, 
as in halls of main. 

You're requested to take them to Mr. 
Stukes, 

Who will with pleasure preserve them 
de luxe; 
To Miss Hopkins or to Dr. McCain, 
Take the said valuable records if 
they’re to remain. ‘ 
Perhaps Mr. Tart, who holds the col- 
lege treasure, 

Would lock yours up with the greatest 
of pleasure. 

Mr. Cunningham, brilliant with busi- 
ness ability, 

Would keep them for you with utmost 
agility, 


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Athletic News 


The snappiest baseball game of the 
Season was played Monday afternoon, 
April 27, by the Sophomores and 
Seniors. On account of lack of time 
the game was called in the fifth in- 
ing. 

The score at the end of the third 
inning was 0-0, ‘Then the Senior 
players began to realize that if they 
lost this game, they would be out of 
the race and the championship would 
rest between thé Sophomores and 
Freshmen. Thus, spurred on by ‘the 
desire to leave college “the victors on 
the diamond” the Seniors rose to the 
occasion and scored a run. 


At the beginning of the fifth in- 
ning the score was: Seniors 1, Sophs 
0. Even yet there was time for the 
hard-fighting Sophomores to show 
their colors and come through on 
top. But no, the Seniors’ incentive 
surpassed that of the class which 
still has two more chances at the 
championship; and the game ended 


‘| with a score of 4-0 in favor of the 


outgoing Seniors, 
The players were: 


Seniors Sophomores 
Woltz, ee eee Reese, c. 
McKinney, p. ...... Eleanor Albright, p. 
Rnippen; Abs. Lynn, 1b. 
B. Walker, 2b. . Jacobsen, 2b. 
Miroussy Bh, eee Richards, 3b. 
Keesler, s.s. _.... Evelyn Allbright, s.s. 
M. Jackson, rf. Henderlite, r.f. 
Scheussler, lf. 0... Lovejoy, Lf. 
TAG NCA Go ee ae M. Cowan, c.f. 


Not only did the Seniors and Sopho- 
mores meet in a baseball combat from 


‘| five to six, but from nine to ten 


that same night the two classes clash- 
ed again. This time it was to play 
off the championship tie in basketball. 

The game was a good one and the 
Sophomores had revenge for their loss 
a few hours before, by a score of 21 
to 10. 

The line up was: 


Seniors Sophomores 
PAN CONN. sernnspecea-ss 2 f(a Henderlite 
B. Walker ............ Si@icca— E, Allbright 
B. Walker «...0.0.::.. t aoe M. Weems 
Scheussler 0.0... Ce ee Jacobsen 
WWeesler sate nace Lynn 
M. A. McKinney ....g%000....... M. Daniels 

E. Woltz substituted for McKin- 
ney. 


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About the things that you wish to 
store. 

If they are securely nailed or locked 

In such a safe place as a big square 
box. 

Miss Miller or Mrs. Calhoun, 

Whether they do it late or soon, 

Will see that it rises by uncanny 
power. 

To the top of the dome or tip of the 
tower. 

These things—is it clear? 

Will remain ’till next year; 

All safe and sound with never a harm; 

Until they hear Big Ben alarm. 

It is then they will rise from their 
dormant state 

To “make sixty” down steps for fear 
they'll be late. : 

It’s the eight o’clock class that causes 
the flurry 

Of old shoes and socks that are used 
to the hurry. 

We’re creatures of habit—so are they, 

So what more will you expect on that 
September day? 


SENIOR CLASS PRESENTS OPERA 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 


arena. Fear clutches at the audience’s 
heart! 

Heat three brings us to the Arena. 
Swiftly, dramatically, hotter and hot- 
ter the heat draws to a close. Don 
Kidme is killed, and Tan Trousers, 
flushed at the apparent proof of his 
victory, rushes at the bull—and alas! 
—is gored. All eyes—all damp— 
turn to the unlucky Mockeater, who, 
stricken, is looking upon the scene. 
Realizing that her true love is dead, 
she, with an agonized shriek, falls 
over the balcony to her death below. 

Thus ended the third and last heat 
of the incomparable opera, Tan Trous- 
ers, 


BLUE RIDGE WEEK INSPIRES 
STUDENTS 
(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 


sentative to College Council, Elsa Ja- 
eoboson, and a student here from 
abroad, who has not yet been selected. 
The conference will last from June 
5th to the 15th. 


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CLASSICAL CLUB GIVES ROMAN 
WEDDING 
(Continued from Page 1 Column 1) 


The curtain rose on the main room 
of Cicero’s house which was decorated 
with flowers, wool and boughs as be- | 
fitted the festive occasion. An altar 
bearing a bowl of unlighted incense 
was at the center back. The guests 
and the two families were waiting ex- | 


pectantly. 

The Pontifex Maximus the 
Flameu Dialis, in robes befitting their 
lofty stations, entered on opposite | 
sides, preceeded by the lictora. After 
the ancient Roman greeting they pro- 
ceeded to the altar, where the Flameu 
lit the incense. Camilla, the slave 
girl, brought the sacrifices of bird, 
meal, and food, to the altar where 
they were consecrated by the Ponti- 
fex Maximus and the Flameu Dialis. 

The bride, in white with yellow veil, 
preceeded by the pronuba, and the 
groom, in white, preceeded by the 
boy attendants, then entered and 
stood at the right of the altar. Aft- 
er Cicero had given wine to the priests 
with which they sprinkled their sacri- 
fices, all knelt while the Flamen pro- 
nounced the solemn words: 

“Auspicia secunda sunt, Magna 
gratia dis immortalibus habena est. 
Auspicia secunda sunt.” 

The pronuba conducted the bride 
and groom to the altar. She joined 
their hands and they walked twice 
around the altar. They then partook 
of the sacred bread, and were conduct- 
ed by the pronuba to a bench covered 
with the mystic sheepskin, facing the 
the altar. The pronuba covered their 
heads with white veil while the Ponti- 
fex Maximus, then hte Flamen Dialis 
offered the sacrifices and invoked the 
favor of the gods upon the newly 
married pair. 

This was the end of the ceremony. 
The pronuba uncovered the heads of 
the bride and groom and they re- 
ceived the affectionate congratulations 
of family and friends. 

The second scene was the Deductia, 
or the taking of the bride from her 
home to the home of the groom. The 
bride, seated in her mother’s lap was 
taken as if by force from her mother’s 
arms by the groom, Tullia (the bride) 
then cut the wedding cake and passed 
it to the guests. 

The curtain fell to rise on the door 
of the groom’s house with an altar 
showing from within. From the back 
of the chapel the procession, headed 
by the flute players, proceeded to the 
doorstep. The flute players were fol- 
lowed by a young boy carrying a torch 
and veil, after whom came the bride 
supported by two boys, and the groom 
walking beside her. Behind these 
came the boy with the bride’s spindle, 
the family, and the chorus singing the 
wedding song—all bearing torches. 

When they reached the groom’s 
door, Tulia wound the posts with 
woolen bands and annointed them 
with oil, the ceremony significant of 
health and prosperity to come. It was | 
believed that if a bride stumbled as 


and 


Dr. Campbell Morgan 
To Be Here Next Year 


Those of us who have been so for- 
tunate as to hear Dr. Campbell Mor- 


|gan in the past are more than de- 


lighted to learn that he is to be on 
the campus for a week next February, 
to lecture. He has been with us for 
two years in the past, 1922-23 and 
1923-24; and the inspiration which 
has come as a result of his talks 
makes us doubly glad that he is to 
be with us again next year. 

We feel that it is a great honor to 
Agnes Scott for Dr. Morgan to come 
to us for he is sought by the largest 
churches of the world. We are de- 
lighted, however, that he has taken 
such a personal interest in our col- 
lege and in our girls that he really 
likes to come. 


she entered her future home, the mar- 
riage would be unsuccessful; therefore 
she was lifted over the threshold by 
two of the boys. Only the groom and 
the family entered after her, placing 
their torches on the altar, while those 
outside continued singing. The groom 
handed the bride a bowl of burning 
incense and one of water, touched by 
both as a sign of mutual purity. 
Gaius then presented the keys of the 
house to Tulia. Then, lighting the 
fire with her torch, she tossed the 
torch to one of the girls outside. The 
one who caught it was the next to be 
married. 

After this most interesting pre- 
sentation of this ancient Roman cere- 
mony, the club elected the following 
officers for next year: Frances Craig- 
head, president; Sarah Shields, vice- 
president; Louise Woodard, secretary 
and treasurer; Lora Lee Turner, chair- 
man of program committee; Evelyn 
Allbright and Louise Woodard, mem- 
bers of the program committee. 

We wish them as successful a year 
as the favorable auspices predicted for 
the marriage of Gaius and Tulia. 


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MAY DAY CELEBRATION GREAT 
SUCCESS 
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fell on Lytle John, and he was pro- 
claimed the hero of the day. But he, 
thinking only of Kate, sought her in 
the crowd, and offered her the Greene 
Bough. She accepted it, and “followed 
by ye cheering crowd, they go before 
the Maye Throne to receive ye ap- 
proyal and blessings of Robyn Hoode 
and hys Faire Queene.” 

Then, because the happiest hours 
must end, the shadows begin to length- 
en over the green, and night fall drove 
the merry revelers home, 

The principals of the cast were: 

Queene, 
Breedlove. 

King, Robyn Hoode—Ruth Harrison. 

Maydes: Ruth MeMillan, Grace 
Boone, Virginia Grimes, Mary Kees- 
ler, Mary Weems, Josephine Walker, 
Elizabeth Clarke, Catherine Mitchell, 
Ellen Walker, Josephine Douglass. 

Kate—Katherine Rickards, 

Lytle John—Gene Dozier. 

Friar Tuck—Sterling Johnson. 

Goddess of the Sun—Sarah Slaugh- 
ter. 

Jack of the Green—Mamie Shaw. 

To the May Day Committee, Miss 
Randolph, Walker Perry, Martha Lin 
Manly, Sarah Slaughter, Frances Ten- 
nent, Grace Etheridge, and Eloise Har- 
ris, all honor is due for the delightful 
glimpse of Olde England which they 
gave the audience, It sat enthralled 
by the picture of old England, her 
bold yeomen and dainty maids; en- 
raptured by the beauty of the Faire 
Queene and her lvoely Maydes; and 
delighted by the charm of the scene. 
It followed the actors back to the day 
when England was in its strong and 
beautiful youth, and joined heartily in 
their revelings of its carefree sons 
and daughters. : 

A splendid orchestra of six pieces 
was responsible for the lovely render- 
ing of the old English folk songs. 
Their melody ran like a silver thread 
through the pastel shades of the fes- 
tival. 

The entire proceeds will go to the 
Student Fund for the Swimming Pool 
and Stage in the new gymnasium. The 
splendid audience which attended 
guarantees that the fund will be ma- 
terially increased. 


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Aggie’s Funny Bone 


Elizabeth: “Last night I made an 
awful mistake.” 

Fisher: “That so; how?” 

Elizabeth: “I drank two bottles of 
gold paint.” 

Fisher: “How do you feel?” 

Elizabeth: “Guilty.’ 


Wife: “Oh, Jack, mother’s fallen 
downstrairs and broken " 


Jack (hopefully): “Her neck?” 
Wife: “No, dear, one of the ban- 
isters.” 


“Peg wears awfully tight shoes, 
doesn’t she?” 


“Sure, it’s her only chance to be 
squeezed,” 


“So you are going to propose to 
Marguerite ?” 

“You bet. Wish me luck?” 

“T wish you luck, all right, old boy. 
But it won’t do you a bit of good. I 
know she is going to accept you.” 


Lecturer: “And what have you done 
to save our timber?” 

From audience: “I shot a woodpeck- 
er once.” 


A rolling stone gathers no moss, but 
it can never have an uphill road to 
travel, 


Modern Education 

A student brought his mother to the 
university and was showing her about. 
The dear old lady was anxious to 
make her boy feel that she under- 
stood everything. 

“Over there, mother,” said the son, 
“are our wonderful polo fields.” 

“Ah,” sighed the old lady, “what is 
there that is nicer than fields of wav- 
ing polo?” 


“May I kiss you, Ruth?” asked the 
young man in the parlor. 

“Oh,” replied Ruth, “Mother’s in the 
other room.” 


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Phone 
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“That's all right,” replied Ed, “your 
dad can kiss her.” 


Lipkin knocked at the door of the 


K. K. K. Office. 

“Who's there?” inquired the guard 
from within, 

“It’s me, Irish Lipkin.” 

“Go on. Beat it,” commanded the 
guard. “Don’t you know that you 
ean’t join this organization?” 

“Vot? Join?” replied Irish. “I don’t 
vant to join, I vant to see the man vot 
buys the sheets.” 


EVOLUTION 
(Ten years between each line). 
Two little lips, learning to say daddy. 
Two little lips, pursed for a laddie. 
Two little lips, kissed by a daddy. 
Two little lips, teaching a laddie. 


“Did the doctor remove your ap- 
pendix ?” 

“Feels to me like he removed my 
whole table of contents.” 


Miss Hearon: “Give me two his- 
torically important dates.” 

L. Hannah: “Anthony and Cleo- 
patra; Napoleon and Joséphine. 


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